The Warriors’ defense is set to receive a huge boost as one of the league’s top stoppers returns to the lineup. Draymond Green, 35, has missed the past three games with both a right foot sprain and for an excused personal reason, but made the trip up to Portland on Sunday.
Green was not on the NBA’s injury report published that afternoon.
The defense sorely lacked Green’s presence in San Francisco on Friday, when the team lost 127-120 and gave up 66 points in the paint to the supersized Wolves. Rudy Gobert scored 24 points and repeatedly dunked on a soft Golden State interior, feasting on missed rotations that Green would have likely made had he been playing center.
Green is averaging 8.0 points, 6.1 points, and 5.5 assists per game while playing 28.2 minutes a night and contributing elite defense. Green will join a frontcourt that has relied upon Quinten Post and Trayce Jackson-Davis in the absence of Green and Al Horford.
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But neither bring the defensive acumen that Green contributes to the Warriors.
Horford remained out with sciatica. The 39-year-old has played in only one game — in Philadelphia — since Nov. 21.
The backcourt might be slightly depleted in Portland too, as both Seth Curry (glute) and Gary Payton II (illness) are questionable.
The Trail Blazers matchup was a late addition to the schedule, with the game added after the teams were eliminated from the in season tournament. After playing a highly-congested schedule to begin the year, the Warriors are playing only two games in a nine-game span.
Golden State entered the game 13-13.
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