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 made a bold decision to reduce 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 the HC’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’s been dealing with a lingering knee injury this year, which 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 because of 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 the legend 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. On the other hand, Draymond Green is 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 the Splash Bro’s minutes yesterday.

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

Well, Steph was on fire last night as he scored a team-high 28 points in only 29 minutes. 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. Yes, Steph checked in back midway through the fourth quarter, but it was too late. After the tough loss, Kerr detailed his call of not putting him on the court for longer, “We usually pencil him in for 32 (mins), 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 Stephen Curry 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 Steve 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 IR!

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