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The Golden State Warriors injury report features a number of other players as they prep for their first game after Jimmy Butler tore his ACL.
The Golden State Warriors are trying to push through tough times.
The team has lost multiple key players for the year to major injury. Right now, it continues to play without its best player. It has been for the last two months.
Golden State faced its first hardship when star swingmanJimmy Butler sustained a torn ACL. That’s one where the long-term rehab starts almost immediately.
Another terrible event happened a few nights ago whenMoses Moody suffered a gruesome patellar rupture in Dallas.
Being injury-ravaged is one thing, but it is easy to overlook the mental toll it can take on the entire organization. The Warriors were once the golden boys (pun-intended) of professional basketball. They now appear like a laughingstock.
Golden State Warriors hopeful Butler, Moody return in 2026-27
Things aren’t all that bad without both players.
Golden State still has a fighting chance to sneak into the playoffs. It’ll likely have to survive two play-in games for that to become reality.
It is hard putting behind what has transpired over the last few months.
Here is a team that entered the 2025-26 campaign full of spirit and conviction. It felt it could make a deep playoff run and hang with the best of the best. Of course, that feeling dissipated rather quickly considering the 10-10 start.
Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors reacts from the bench.
GettyStephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors reacts from the bench against the Atlanta Hawks.
But it can take an older team sometime to get percolating. Maybe the Warriors were preparing to take off at some point. Then it happened to Butler. Then to Moody.
As the Dubs look to navigate the rest of the season, head coach Steve Kerr is hopeful both injured stars meet the best case scenario in their rehab.
According to ESPN’s Anthony Slater, the Warriors bench boss is holding out hope that Butler and Moody can return to the court as soon as sometime before the end of next season.
Steve Kerr on Jimmy Butler and Moses Moody, his two starting wings facing lengthy knee rehabs: “Hopefully those guys will be back next season, midseason or so.”
— Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) March 26, 2026
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What is Golden State’s outlook for next year?
Everyone understands the Warriors will be once again shorthanded for the few first months of the 2026-27 campaign.
That may be enough to deflate them, or that could be something that pushes them to play their best in order to receive an even bigger boost when they regain the services of Butler and Moody.
It is tough to tell where the franchise sees itself in the short-term.
The roster has aging and injury-prone pieces and not a ton of developing youth. That is an awkward position to be in.
But nothing matters more than the availability and health of superstar point guardStephen Curry, especially right now as the Warriors are on a collision course with the play-in tournament.
Curry’s volcanic shooting ability makes the Warriors a threat to win any game he participates in.
As for Butler and Moody, perhaps it is asking too much of them to return fully healthy before next year’s All-Star Weekend.
By that time, the Dubs will either be dug in too deep of a hole or somewhere in the middle. It probably won’t be beneficial in any way to rush back their injured stars.
For now, all focus has shifted to the final few weeks of the season to see what magic Curry and Warriors can work up.