After a surprisingly hot start, the Warriors’ momentum has taken a minor hit. Well, they have lost their last two games to teams ranked eighth or below in their respective conference. Moreover, Steve Kerr took a bold decision of reducing Stephen Curry’s minutes during yesterday’s Nets encounter, which raised a lot of eyebrows. And it looks like problems are not over for the Bay Area team as Kerr’s latest update on Stephen Curry and Draymond Green’s health ahead of tomorrow’s Thunder game raises concerns.

Making an appearance on the Willard & Dibs Show, the head coach said, “Steph and Draymond both sat out practice today with aches and pains, Steph with the knee stuff.” Yes, Steph has been dealing with a lingering knee injury this year, which has made him a regular entry in the injury report. And he is back on it as Kerr remarked, “We’ll keep him as questionable and we’ll see how he’s doing tomorrow.”

Although Steph has missed three games this year, it was due to an ankle sprain early in the season. But he has been playing through left knee bursitis in recent weeks. However, it looks like the lingering injury has finally taken a toll on him as he has been downgraded from his usual probable status to questionable. The reason? Bilateral patellofemoral pain, patella soreness in both knees. The good news is that he has not been ruled out yet. Meanwhile, Draymond is also not on the injury report despite Kerr’s update of him suffering aches and pains. The former DPOY has not missed a game so far.

Maybe, Steph’s injury was one of the reasons why Kerr decided to reduce Steph’s minutes yesterday.

Steve Kerr reveals reason behind Stephen Curry’s minute restriction after blowing 18-point lead

Well, Steph was on fire last night as he scored a team-high 28 points in only 29 minutes. And his scoring outburst led to his team gaining an eighteen-point lead at one point. However, while Steph was resting on the bench, the Nets muscled a comeback and turned the game around in their favor. Yes, Steph checked back midway through the fourth quarter, but it was too late. After the tough loss, Kerr detailed his call of not putting Steph on the court for more minutes, “We usually pencil him in for 32 [minutes], and we like to keep it around that number.”

He continued, “I don’t love to run him the whole fourth quarter and I like to have him close with some energy, and so that means if we can give him that last eight minutes — generally, I feel pretty good about that. But at that point, Brooklyn was rolling, and we couldn’t slow them down.” Obviously, now that Steph is on the older side, giving him enough rest is extremely crucial to keep him healthy throughout the season. But that creates a huge dilemma for Kerr because he gets criticized when he doesn’t play Steph enough in a tough loss like last night, and he also gets criticized for not giving Steph enough rest when he enters the injury report.

Obviously, a better solution to this problem would be for the young guys to step up and take some load off Steph’s shoulders. But De’Anthony Melton is out for the season, Jonathan Kuminga has missed two games with an illness, and Brandin Podziemski is facing the sophomore slump. Sure enough, this puts Kerr in a difficult situation. Do you agree?