Steve Kerr joined Willard and Dibs Friday afternoon after the Warriors split a pair of games at home. The more pressing news, however, was Stephen Curry's status.
The Warriors were initially expected to provide an update on Curry Friday, but said they would delay the assessment until Saturday. While Kerr affirmed that and had no concrete update, he said Curry would likely miss Saturday night's game against the San Antonio Spurs.
"We'll know more tomorrow," Kerr said. "The good news is the MRI was basically fine, but injuries like these, it sort of takes a couple of days to really evaluate Steph, see where he is and we'll have we'll have a better feel and we'll have a report out tomorrow. So we gotta wait till then. It's unlikely he would play but we haven't made any determination yet until until tomorrow."
If Curry is out, Kerr said there are ongoing discussions about the best way to handle the rotations, but he did give some insight as to who will be more involved and who might not be.
For Andrew Wiggins, who has played 29 minutes in two games since returning from a four-game personal absence, the minutes will be increasing.
"He missed eight or 10 days and wasn't really ready to go long minutes and so we wanted, with the back to back, we purposely kept his minutes down to help him kind of get back in the groove and I would expect to his minutes to go back up from here on," Kerr said."
He also discussed Moses Moody's expanded role, and whether that will continue with Wiggins increasingly in the fold.
"Moses will still get minutes," Kerr said. "He will continue to play. He played so hard and he made so many hustle plays. I think he's been great defensively since he's been in the rotation the last couple of weeks. And I think the more he plays, the more comfortable he'll get at shooting the three as well.
"The real change to the rotation, as you've noticed, was taking Dario and Looney out, playing Trayce Jackson-Davis more, playing Moses more. And, you know, we'll continue to approach things that way.
Kerr assessed Jackson-Davis' expanded role, and the fact that Looney's consecutive games streak came to an end. Looney had the second-longest streak of games played in the league, with 290. That came to an end Thursday night.
He said he talked to Looney about it last week and said he thought throwing Looney on the court for garbage time minutes would be patronizing.
"We talked about this. Last week I went to Loon and talked to him about Trayce taking over that role," Kerr said. "And I told him how much pride that I have in his streak, and I knew how much pride he had and I had a similar one as a player that I took great pride in.
"But, bottom line for me is, we've committed to giving those minutes to Trayce and it didn't feel right to me to just for the sake of the streak, throw Loon out there for a couple of minutes. I didn't think that was fair. It's almost patronizing in a lot of ways."
All that said, Kerr acknowledged what the ending of the streak means.
"The thing with Loon is he's a great pro," Kerr said. "The streak, what it represents is what's really important that he's available every single night. The number is just the number. And he's ready. We're going to need him again for sure. We're going to need him against certain matchups in the playoffs. I know what he can do and and I know how professional he is. And having said all that I feel terrible about breaking that streak because I know it meant a lot to him."
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