Warriors guard Stephen Curry missed extended time last season due to patellofemoral pain syndrome (runner’s knee) in his right knee. On the Dubs Talk podcast (YouTube link), Monte Poole of NBC Sports Bay Area said there’s still a level of concern about that ailment.

“There’s at least some lingering concern about the knee,” Poole said. “From what I’ve been told, it can be managed, but it has to be managed and that’s a new thing for Steph. People always say he is the most conditioned guy in the league, and now he has to manage a knee.

“I guess we’ll find out, but from what I understand, he and his trainers have devised ways to kind of work around that and sort of support that whole possibility of the knee not being as great as he wants it to be. So, I’m curious to see how it turns out, but Steph seems pretty confident that he’ll be able to go out there and put out 70-plus games.”

Curry, 38, recently became extension-eligible. While the two-time MVP reiterated his commitment to the only NBA team he’s ever known, he suggested a new deal may not be imminent, telling NBC Sports Bay Area, “we’ll figure that out at the right time.”

Here’s more on the Warriors:

  • Head coach Steve Kerr on Thursday declined to answer what a “satisfactory” season would look like for Golden State, according to Poole of NBC Sports Bay Area, but he expressed optimism about the 2026/27 campaign. “If we can really lock in on a great process, which I’m very confident we will, we can get off to a good start and build some momentum,” Kerr said. “That’s my main goal. To just kind of rebuild everything, get back to our roots and have a great camp, and see where it all takes us. But I’m very confident we can have a great year.”
  • Kerr told Poole that the Warriors are high on No. 11 overall pick Yaxel Lendeborg and suggested the rookie forward is in the conversation for a spot in the starting lineup ahead of training camp later this month. “We’ve added some good players with Yaxel, Georges Niang, and believe Brandon Williams can help us,” Kerr said. “Our young guys obviously had a great summer, winning Summer League and really putting in a lot of work. The biggest things are figuring out who’s going to start, and what’s the rotation going to look like? Can Yaxel play the 3 with Draymond (Green) at the 4, with Kristaps (Porzingis) or Al (Horford) at the 5? What would that look like? We’ll have a lot of time to determine that.”
  • Green took issue with some of the recent comments from Jonathan Kuminga’s agent, Aaron Turner, relays Nick Avila of NBC Sports Bay Area. Turner has given multiple interviews of late where he’s defended his handling of Kuminga’s free agency and the decision to decline a three-year, $75MM contract offer last year from the Warriors that included a third-year team option, instead accepting a two-year, $46.8MM deal with a second-year team option. Kuminga finalized a two-year, $12.4MM contract with Minnesota on Thursday. “You trying to get the people off your back,” Green said on his podcast. “You do that by going and get great deals. Just go do that. Put the focus on that. Go and get a great deal. Not fighting off because you’re fighting this off so that the next potential clients see it and you’re explaining it. This ain’t really about JK. It’s about the next potential client. That’s the problem in this is you ain’t explaining that for JK’s sake. … That ain’t cool at all. That’s very self-serving. Let me look out for myself for my next client so he know what happened. I’m speaking to them.”