Injuries continue to ravage the Golden State Warriors after the team lost four more players Friday night during their127-117 lossto the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Lower back soreness knocked out Draymond Green 30 minutes before tipoff; Quinten Post suffered a sprained left ankle; and Al Horford (right calf tightness) and Seth Curry (left adductor soreness) exited the game at separate points.
On top of that, the Warriors lost their fourth straight game and ninth of their past 12 games. At 32-34, theysit ninth in the Western Conferenceand have not won consecutive games since a four-game winning streak in mid-January.
"We're going through it for sure," said Warriors coach Steve Kerr,via NBC Bay Area. "But you saw how hard the guys played and stayed in it and got the fans into it. We can't ask anything more of our players right now what they're giving effort-wise and playing together. But yeah, we're about as beaten up as any team."
The injury situation was already worrisome for the Warriors, who lostJimmy Butler to a torn ACLin January and havenot had Stephen Curry for the past 16 gamesdue to a right knee injury.
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(Curry, along with Butler, will notreach the league's 65-game thresholdfor year-end awards this season.)
The road to turning around the final quarter of the season doesn't get easier. TheWarriors begin a six-game road trip on Sunday, which features games against the New York Knicks, Boston Celtics, Atlanta Hawks and Detroit Pistons.
While there was no update on the statuses of Green, Post and Seth Curry after the game, Kerr said Horford suffered a calf "strain" and will likely miss time.
"With a calf, we're not going to rush him back," Kerr said.