{"id":488366,"date":"2026-01-03T01:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T01:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/488366\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T01:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T01:38:11","slug":"steph-curry-jimmy-butler-and-draymond-green-out-vs-thunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/488366\/","title":{"rendered":"Steph Curry, Jimmy Butler, and Draymond Green out vs. Thunder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Steph Curry (ankle), Jimmy Butler (illness), and Draymond Green (rest) are expected to be out against defending champions Oklahoma City Thunder tonight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Choosing to rest their core three on the front end of a back-to-back essentially means the Warriors would rather go for the win against a relatively easier team in the Utah Jazz on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Since their game tonight will be a nationally televised tilt on Amazon Prime, the league can decide if resting the likes of Curry and Butler can be grounds for a fine based on player participation rules.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It should also be noted that, with the core three being ruled out, an opportunity for Jonathan Kuminga to see time on the floor will be opened, per Steve Kerr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steph Curry (ankle), Jimmy Butler (illness), and Draymond Green (rest) are expected to be out against defending champions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":488367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[128519,2389,3360,11434,1260,1268,62,24894,177956,67,132,68,3132],"class_list":["post-488366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-anthony-slater","tag-draymond-green","tag-jimmy-butler","tag-jonathan-kuminga","tag-nba","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-sports","tag-steph-curry","tag-the-warriors","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-utah-jazz"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115828614973386267","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}