Warriors will be without several veterans on Sunday vs. Knicks

The team ruled out Draymond Green, Al Horford, Kristaps Porzingis, Seth Curry and De’Anthony Melton for its marquee game against the Knicks.

After a painful close to their home series on Friday night, the Golden State Warriors will be deprived of almost all of their veterans to start a visiting tour in New York this Sunday night.

The team ruled out Draymond Green, Al Horford, Kristaps Porzingis, Seth Curry and De’Anthony Melton for their stellar match against the New York Knicks. Jimmy Butler III He suffered a torn ACL in January and will miss the rest of the season. Stephen Curry He will miss his 17th consecutive game due to a lingering right knee problem.

“We are going through a difficult time,” acknowledged the Warriors coach Steve Kerr. “We’re as depleted by injuries as any team I can remember.”

In Friday night’s loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves, Horford left the game after five minutes of play with a calf strain, while Seth Curry limped to the locker room with an adductor strain. Both are expected to be sidelined for some time.

Green, Porzingis and Melton are listed as injured under “injury management,” indicating that the Warriors have chosen to rest their veterans in the first of the two consecutive games they will play, in this case against the Knicks. On Monday night they will face a team, the Washington Wizards, that is a priori more affordable. Green was ruled out just before the game against Minnesota due to a lower back problem, although it is not considered a serious injury.

In response to this situation, the Warriors They will sign center Ömer Yurtseven on a 10-day contract, according to various sources informed Shams Charania of AM850. Yurtseven accumulates 113 career matches in the NBAhaving played for the Miami Heat and the Utah Jazz. He recently joined the G League after a stint in the EuroLeague, and on Friday night he recorded a 36-point, 12-rebound performance.

The Warriors They have chained four consecutive defeats, falling to a balance of 32-34 and dropping to ninth place in the Western Conference; They are 8.5 games behind sixth place and are just half a game ahead of the Portland Trail Blazers. The team now begins a complicated six-game road trip that includes stops in Boston, Detroit, Atlanta and Dallas.