Gilbert Arenas responds to Steph Curry, saying Steph is perfect, but the only blemish on his family’s reputation is the things Ayesha Curry has said and done.
“I’m sorry if he’s offended.”
(Via @GilsArenaShow / h/t @SnapshotKyle )
Injury news: Will Richard has already been upgraded to questionable for tomorrow’s Warriors game in Houston @NBCSWarriors
Surgery is inevitable eventually, but looks like Richard is trying to play through his torn left UCL soon with a splint
Brandon Williams has a mild left hamstring strain, per sources. He will be re-evaluated in a week. The Warriors will be without an important reserve guard (10.4 ppg in 16.4 mpg) for a difficult five-game road trip to Houston, San Antonio, New Orleans, Dallas, Memphis.
Joe Lacob on if Yaxel's emergence increases the possibility of the Warriors making an aggressive, win-now move:
"Look, this is Mike [Dunleavy's] job, and Mike and Kirk [Lacob] have said all along that it's nice to have the optionality we do have going forward. We obviously have a lot expiring contracts should it make sense and we have all our draft capital pretty much going forward. So we have optionality. Depending on the situation, depending on what's available, you never really know what's going to be available. So I think, does it make more sense? I mean one could make that argument I guess, but there's a lot of very interesting things happening. I was watching the game tonight [against the Pelicans] and I was particularly impressed, not only yet again with Yaxel, but Bassey and Ike, both playing darn well at a position we really needed that help at. Al Horford obviously still can come in there, can't play 30 minutes or 40 minutes, but he's very good at that position. Draymond plays center so I don't know. I think we still need to continue evaluating. We got a tough road trip against some really good teams. Let's see how we do and we'll address it at the appropriate time, see if there's something that makes sense. We certainly can be aggressive if we decide that's the right thing to do for the right player."
Joe Lacob on the disappointment of the Kristaps Porzingis situation:
"I mean it's disappointing. We certainly had every intention of him being a core part of the team. We knew it was a risk, he's had some injury history, but it was a good risk worth taking in my view. I think Mike [Dunleavy] did the right thing by signing him. I thought the deal was good. I guess you could sit there and say, and some have, 'You should have anticipated this,' but there's no way you could. He played last spring. We thought we had the medical condition under control and right up until training camp, we had every belief that he was going to come in and be a serious contributor to our team, so it is what it is. Now we have to adjust. We have to be flexible. We have to make the best of our situation . . . I think there's room to do something."
Joe Lacob talks about their attempt of drafting another player in addition to drafting Yaxel during the 2026 NBA Draft:
"I mean, we certainly liked a couple of players. There were a lot of good players in this draft to be honest, at top of the draft and as you're seeing that this year. So I think would we have liked to get a 2nd pick and tried to do that, did we try? Sure . . . Yeah, to get 2 players, but it's very, very hard to do. Very rarely do teams trade out of the top 10, especially in a draft like this. So I don't think it was surprising that we were not able to do that. The biggest thing that happened that was so positive was that 10 teams passed on Yaxel Lendeborg, which is incredible."
Steph Curry sounded open to the possibility of Jordan Poole returning to the Warriors:
“Jordan is at the top of the list. There aren’t many guys I’ve played with that I wouldn’t welcome back.”
(via @joseph_dycus of @mercnews https://t.co/YI7Bw9j3Ci)
Podz on what's been working well during the win streak:
"I think our connectivity. We haven't played the best basketball, but through good and through bad, our connectivity has helped us in certain moments and then over the course of games. When I say that, when you go on a win streak or a losing streak that's extended, there can be a temptation to kind of look inward and really want more for yourself and I think what the group has done has just been a service to others and what each individual can bring to see the team succeed and I think that's been the key to through the 8 game win streak, even the games we've played poorly."