<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/nba/golden-state-warriors/warriors-news-draymond-green-al-horford-jonathan-kuminga-injury-updates-please-fans');   ga('set', 'title', 'Warriors’ Draymond Green, Al Horford, Jonathan Kuminga injury updates won’t please fans');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Draymond-Green-Al-Horford-Jonathan-Kuminga-injury-updates-wont-please-fans.jpg"></figure><h1>Warriors’ Draymond Green, Al Horford, Jonathan Kuminga injury updates won’t please fans</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2025-11-23T16:29:56-08:00">November 23rd, 4:29pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2025-11-23T16:29:56-08:00">November 23rd, 4:29pm</time><address><a href="http://kenzofukuda.com">Kenzo Fukuda</a>Kenzo Fukuda (he/him) is a Japanese and Chinese American journalist and writer born and raised in San Francisco, CA. He is in his first season as the Golden State Valkyries and Warriors beat reporter after three seasons of covering Cal Bears basketball. Kenzo is also an avid filmmaker and holds extensive knowledge of basketball.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">Golden State Warriors</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>SAN FRANCISCO– The <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba/golden-state-warriors/warriors-news-jonathan-kuminga-injury-timeline-steve-kerr">Golden State Warriors have caught the bit of the injury bug</a> right as they start their important extended homestand. Veteran center Al Horford, who left midway through the narrow loss to the Portland Trail Blazers with a right hamstring injury, will <a href="https://x.com/kenzofuku/status/1992694090216194202?s=20" rel="noopener">miss at least the next three games</a> with a sciatic-related injury, per head coach Steve Kerr.</p><p>“Al [Horford’s] going to be out for a little bit, so Trayce [Jackson-Davis] will see some more minutes,” Kerr said. “He’ll miss the next three games for sure.”</p><p>According to the team, Horford will be re-evaluated in one week. As for Horford’s frontcourt mate, Draymond Green, the Dubs’ defensive heartbeat is officially questionable for Monday’s matchup with the Utah Jazz due to a mild foot sprain he also suffered in the Blazers’ loss. Kerr told reporters Green <a href="https://x.com/kenzofuku/status/1992697123541074069" rel="noopener">might have landed on it awkwardly</a>. That potentially leaves Golden State without its two best big men, right after Portland outrebounded them 52-32 on the glass.</p><p>Horford and Green’s injuries also come at a time when the Warriors’ depth is running thin. Forward Jonathan Kuminga, who has missed the past five games with bilateral patellar knee tendonitis, remains “day-to-day” based on what the Dubs’ training staff has told Kerr. But Kuminga is expected to miss more games in the near future, as he was only able to “barely” participate in the Warriors’ live drill work today at practice.</p><p>“I don’t know where [he’s at], he’s got to tell you where he is [with the injury]. He’s not moving well. So, training staff, working with them, I have no idea what he’s doing,” Kerr said.</p><p>A reporter asked a follow-up regarding Kerr’s concern level for Kuminga moving forward.</p><p>“I just talked to the training staff, and they tell me it’s day-to-day. Talking to JK [Kuminga], he said he’s not moving that well. So I can’t tell you what the outlook is.”</p><h2><b>The strangeness of Kuminga’s injury</b></h2><p>Kuminga’s injury is nothing but strange, especially considering how <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba/golden-state-warriors/warriors-news-jonathan-kuminga-injury-timeline-steve-kerr">Kerr sounded hopeful about his timeline</a> just days earlier.</p><p>“I think JK would tell you that [outlook] better than I could.” Kerr continued in his media availability. “He needs to feel better and be able to move better before we put him out there. Maybe we’ll get some imaging done, but yeah, we’ve got to figure it out… I was hoping he was gonna scrimmage today, and he didn’t do that, so it’s obviously worse than we thought. But I haven’t talked to him.”</p><p>As Kerr detailed Kuminga’s injury, there was the sense that the communication between the two is a bit lacking. Kerr told reporters to ask Kuminga about his injury for more clarity. And while Kerr said he talked to Kuminga about how he’s not moving well, he also said he hadn’t talked to him in regards to what he’s doing with the training staff.</p><p>It’s no secret that Kuminga and Kerr have had their difficulties in the past. The latest one seems to be Kuminga feeling like the “scapegoat” to Golden State’s problems when Kerr moved him to the bench during the Dubs’ rough patch two weeks ago. The vagueness surrounding Kuminga’s knee injury only seems to heighten the strangeness of his whole situation. Still, Kerr expressed that the Warriors need him and that his play has been missed.</p><p>“We missed him. We played in Miami, missing all our guys. The other night, we were tired, like, we needed him. But he’s got to get right before he can play, obviously.”</p><p>With Horford set to miss time, Kuminga’s injury a huge question mark, and Green banged up, Golden State will look deep into its bench to find stopgap answers.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Warriors’ Draymond Green, Al Horford, Jonathan Kuminga injury updates won’t please fans

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/nba/golden-state-warriors/warriors-news-draymond-green-recalls-al-horford-unexpected-chat-jordan-poole-incident');   ga('set', 'title', 'Warriors’ Draymond Green recalls Al Horford unexpected chat on Jordan Poole incident');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Green-and-Horford.jpg"><figcaption>Kyle Terada-Imagn Images</figcaption></figure><h1>Warriors’ Draymond Green recalls Al Horford unexpected chat on Jordan Poole incident</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2025-11-20T09:04:21-08:00">November 20th, 9:04am</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2025-11-20T09:04:21-08:00">November 20th, 9:04am</time><address><a>Jackson Stone</a>Jackson Stone is a Mercer University alum from Atlanta who graduated with a BA in communications. A lifelong sports lover, Jackson is a die-hard fan of all Atlanta teams. He joined ClutchPoints in 2023.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">Golden State Warriors</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>The <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba/golden-state-warriors/warriors-rumors-why-jonathan-kuminga-feels-scapegoat-again">Golden State Warriors have gotten</a> off to a frustrating start to the 2025-26 NBA season, currently sitting at 9-8 after a road <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba/golden-state-warriors/warriors-news-jimmy-butler-action-heat-game-sparks-reactions">loss vs the Miami Heat</a> on Wednesday evening. Most of Golden State’s key players sat this game out, but the team looked similarly frustrated the previous night with a loss against the Orlando Magic, when most everyone was healthy.</p><p>The Warriors’ free agency signing of Al Horford is looking like a major bust so far, with the big man shooting 33% from the field so far this year.</p><p>Recently, Warriors power forward Draymond Green<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1884&amp;v=_zi7yrJxHMM&amp;feature=youtu.be" rel="noopener"> recalled a conversation</a> he had with Horford that helped the two grow closer.</p><p>“He said, “Man, so the elephant in the room, I have to ask you, like we got to know, what happened with you and Jordan Poole, like why?” And so we start going through the whole thing and it was a very deep conversation. And from that one question, the conversation among us probably went on for an hour,” said Green, per Jordan Schultz.</p><p>“It was one of the best conversations I’ve ever had with teammates because in that moment it made me realize like, oh man, these new guys are coming to this team and they don’t really know what to expect from me. Like they don’t know, is this guy just going to hit one of his teammates? It’s like they didn’t know what to expect,” he added.</p><p>Draymond Green of course punched his former teammate Jordan Poole in a practice session before the 2022-23 season, which hung a cloud over the Warriors’ franchise that year and ultimately resulted in Poole being sent to the Washington Wizards.</p><p>While Green hasn’t lashed out at any of his teammates (that we know of) since then, he is still widely known for his loose temper, which at times can provide Golden State with a spark, and at others can cost them games.</p><p>While Green didn’t exactly explain what he was thinking when he hit Poole, it’s good to know that he can at least acknowledge the incident with some of his new teammates, such as Horford.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Warriors’ Draymond Green recalls Al Horford unexpected chat on Jordan Poole incident

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/nba/golden-state-warriors/warriors-al-horford-problem-requires-trade-to-fix');   ga('set', 'title', 'Warriors’ Al Horford problem requires a trade to fix');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Horford-shoots.jpg"><figcaption>Mike Watters-Imagn Images</figcaption></figure><h1>Warriors’ Al Horford problem requires a trade to fix</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2025-11-19T09:55:57-08:00">November 19th, 9:55am</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2025-11-19T09:55:57-08:00">November 19th, 9:55am</time><address><a>Jackson Stone</a>Jackson Stone is a Mercer University alum from Atlanta who graduated with a BA in communications. A lifelong sports lover, Jackson is a die-hard fan of all Atlanta teams. He joined ClutchPoints in 2023.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">Golden State Warriors</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>The <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba/golden-state-warriors/warriors-news-jimmy-butler-annoyed-2-word-response-jalen-suggs-tiff">Golden State Warriors have gotten</a> off to a tepid start to the 2025-26 NBA season, currently sitting at 9-7 after Tuesday night’s road <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba/golden-state-warriors/3-takeaways-warriors-disappointing-loss-paolo-banchero-less-magic">loss vs the Orlando Magic</a>. While Stephen Curry and Jimmy Butler have both been playing some good basketball of late, the Warriors are looking for a lot more out of late offseason signee Al Horford.</p><p>Horford has had <a href="https://www.espn.com/nba/player/_/id/3213/al-horford" rel="noopener">an abysmal start</a> to his tenure in the Bay Area, averaging 5.7 points on just 33.8 percent shooting from the field and 31.9 percent from beyond the arc, both steep dropoffs from what we saw from him most recently with the Boston Celtics.</p><p>Coming into this season, many were anticipating that Horford could be one of the best big men of the Warriors’ entire dynastic era (which is not a high bar to reach) even at the age of 39, but thus far, that has been far from the case.</p><p>With this becoming such a glaring issue so early in the season, it’s not outside the realm of possibility that the Warriors could pursue a trade for a more serviceable big man.</p><p>So far this season, several big name power forwards and centers have seen their names floated in trade rumors, including New Orleans Pelicans power forward Zion Williamson and Dallas Mavericks power forward Anthony Davis, both of whom are currently out of the lineup due to injuries.</p><p>Meanwhile, reports recently surfaced that Draymond Green had shot down a potential Lauri Markannen trade that the Warriors had orchestrated with the Utah Jazz, so it’s unlikely that anything will materialize on that front in the present day.</p><p>The Warriors could also go for smaller targets on the trade market, such as Nic Claxton, who has quietly been putting together a strong year on a putrid Brooklyn Nets team, or perhaps someone like Robert Williams III of the Portland Trail Blazers, who currently have a bit of a logjam at the center position.</p><p>Whatever they choose to do, it’s already abundantly clear that the Warriors need an upgrade at center.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Warriors’ Al Horford problem requires a trade to fix

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/nba/golden-state-warriors/warriors-news-al-horford-looked-broken-here-jimmy-butler-just-saved-him');   ga('set', 'title', 'Warriors’ Al Horford looked broken, but here’s how Jimmy Butler just saved him');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Warriors-forward-Al-Horford.jpg"><figcaption>Bob Kupbens-Imagn Images</figcaption></figure><h1>Warriors’ Al Horford looked broken, but here’s how Jimmy Butler just saved him</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2025-11-10T10:51:19-08:00">November 10th, 10:51am</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2025-11-10T10:51:19-08:00">November 10th, 10:51am</time><address><a>Josue Pavon</a>Josue Pavon is an Associate Editor and the Oklahoma City Thunder beat writer for ClutchPoints. He started his career as a credentialed media member writing about the Boston Celtics for WEEI.com in Boston, where he grew into a local on-camera NBA reporter and podcast host for CLNS Media. Alongside the Celtics radio broadcaster and two-time NBA champion Cedric Maxwell, Josue is the co-host of the Cedric Maxwell podcast.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">Golden State Warriors</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>Golden State Warriors forward Jimmy Butler set out to end Al Horford’s cold streak in Sunday’s 114-83 blowout win against the Indiana Pacers. In one of his better games of the season, Horford finished with 12 points on four threes, four rebounds, and three blocks off the bench.</p><p>After the win, Horford highlighted Butler’s approach of looking for Al <a href="https://twitter.com/anthonyVslater/status/1987748598394790054" rel="noopener">when he was open</a>, which led to him finishing the night 4-for-6 from deep in the Warriors’ win against the Pacers, he said, per The Athletic’s Anthony Slater.</p><p>“Jimmy right away made it a clear point to look for me,” Horford said. “He had those a few times. He had layups, and he’s looking out to kick it out, and encouraging me to shoot the ball. The passes are there. They’re on the money. I credit a lot of that to him for getting me going, offensively. On the defensive end, I just try to have more energy and be more active, and just kind of figure that out.”</p><p>Butler revealed his intent to get the ball to Horford was very much intentional.</p><p>“Very purposeful,” Butler said. “As great as the screens he sets for me are, protecting everybody at the rim, making all the right plays, it’s only right whenever he’s open, he gets the ball, every single time, for sure, from me. And I’ll tell him, when I got the ball at the top, I’ll jump over and skip it to you every single time in the corner. So, just be ready to shoot it.”</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Al Horford on what led to his four 3s: “Jimmy right away made it a clear point to look for me.”</p><p>Butler: “Very purposeful.” <a href="https://t.co/LDOJsiJSEk">pic.twitter.com/LDOJsiJSEk</a></p><p>— Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) <a href="https://twitter.com/anthonyVslater/status/1987748598394790054?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 10, 2025</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>Butler’s 21 points, nine rebounds, and seven assists led the Warriors to a 31-point victory.</p><h2><b>Jimmy Butler’s advice for Jonathan Kuminga after Warriors win</b></h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Warriors-Jimmy-Butler_e0b577.jpg"><figcaption>D. Ross Cameron-Imagn Images</figcaption></figure><p>Warriors <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba/golden-state-warriors/warriors-news-jimmy-butler-advice-jonathan-kuminga-rough-night-pacers">veteran Jimmy Butler has connected with Jonathan Kuminga</a>, taking on a mentor role to the starting forward. Butler invited him to his home after the win. Kuminga struggled offensively against the Pacers, which was something Jimmy downplayed during his postgame media availability.</p><p>“He’s actually going to come over to my house for dinner right now,” Butler said. “But the thing that I tell you and I tell him– you’re not going to play great every night. You’re not going to play bad every night either. But you don’t ever get too high whenever you score 79 points, and you don’t ever get too low when you score two [points]. You stay right in the middle and you keep working. Keep doing what you’re supposed to be doing every single day. And those days, they’ll even out.”</p><p>The Warriors will face the 10-1 Thunder on Tuesday.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Warriors’ Al Horford looked broken, but here’s how Jimmy Butler just saved him

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/nba/golden-state-warriors/warriors-news-will-richard-high-praise-jimmy-butler-al-horford-rookie-shines-pacers-win');   ga('set', 'title', 'Warriors’ Will Richard draws high praise from Jimmy Butler and Al Horford as rookie shines in Pacers win');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Warriors-News-Will-Richard-draws-high-praise-from-Jimmy-Butler-and-Al-Horford-as-rookie-continues-to-thrive.jpg"></figure><h1>Warriors’ Will Richard draws high praise from Jimmy Butler and Al Horford as rookie shines in Pacers win</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2025-11-10T05:16:08-08:00">November 10th, 5:16am</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2025-11-10T05:16:08-08:00">November 10th, 5:16am</time><address><a href="http://kenzofukuda.com">Kenzo Fukuda</a>Kenzo Fukuda (he/him) is a Japanese and Chinese American journalist and writer born and raised in San Francisco, CA. He is in his first season as the Golden State Valkyries and Warriors beat reporter after three seasons of covering Cal Bears basketball. Kenzo is also an avid filmmaker and holds extensive knowledge of basketball.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">Golden State Warriors</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>SAN FRANCISCO– The <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba/golden-state-warriors/warriors-news-dubs-second-timelines-silver-linings-not-enough-narrow-loss-kings">Golden State Warriors have had a hard time</a> mustering up energy and effort at a consistent level through the early portion of this season. It’s what <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba/golden-state-warriors/draymond-green-believes-failed-the-warriors-defense-right">Draymond Green pointed to when the defense failed</a> to stop the Denver Nuggets, and it’s what Steve Kerr has emphasized needing more of, especially in winnable games. But if there’s one guy who hasn’t had a problem with that, it’s been <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba/golden-state-warriors/warriors-news-steve-kerr-golden-state-excited-rookie-will-richard">second-round rookie Will Richard</a>.</p><p>In the Warriors’ 114-83 win over the Indiana Pacers, a game that looked dicier than the 31-point difference indicates, Richard came off the bench to give the Dubs 15 points on 4-of-8 from the field, 7-of-8 from the free throw line, and a +19 plus/minus in 19 minutes. Golden State couldn’t find separation from the undermanned and depleted Pacers coming off a back-to-back. But Richard’s stretch at the start of the fourth quarter gave Golden State a good combination of defense, IQ, and hustle, helping the team to a game-deciding 21-11 run.</p><p>After the game, <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba/golden-state-warriors/warriors-news-al-horford-nba-protect-players-gambling-problems">veteran center Al Horford</a>, who was also a big part of the run to knock off the fiesty Pacers, talked about the energy Richard brings when he gets <a href="https://x.com/kenzofuku/status/1987742851820867763?s=20" rel="noopener">into the game</a>.</p><p>“It’s amazing because he’ll go from not playing or not having any stretch. And then when he comes in, he’s ready,” Horford said. “He’s cutting, he’s hitting threes, he’s getting on the break, he’s defending; he does a little bit of everything. I’ve been very impressed with his maturity and how he’s been able to handle all the tasks that we throw at him because it’s very unpredictable.”</p><p>Over the last three games, the shooting guard from Florida has averaged 19.0 points, 4.3 rebounds, and 2.0 assists on 40.0% from distance. In his post-game presser, Richard talked about the pride he takes in making an impact whenever he checks in.</p><p>“Just making an impact, whether that’s on the offensive or defensive end. Spreading the floor and doing stuff like that,” Richard said. “I grew up watching the Warriors, so for me, Steph and Dray and all of them, they made my childhood. So I feel like every time I’m on the court, I need to pay that back by going out there and playing as hard as I can.”</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Warriors’ rookie Will Richard at the podium tonight. Credited his teammates and past coaches for the success he’s had this season. </p><p>Over the last 3 games, the 2nd rounder from Florida has averaged 19.0 points, 4.3 rebounds and 2.0 assists on 40.0% from distance. <a href="https://t.co/yKQuG7mwhI">pic.twitter.com/yKQuG7mwhI</a></p><p>— Kenzo Fukuda (@kenzofuku) <a href="https://twitter.com/kenzofuku/status/1987759965638123998?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 10, 2025</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><h2>How Will Richard has climbed into Steve Kerr’s rotation</h2><p>It’s hard for a second-round rookie to make headway into a contending team’s rotation. Especially in a system as complex and intricate as Steve Kerr’s. But Richard’s been more than up to the task, understanding his role and operating seamlessly and intuitively next to Steph Curry and Jimmy Butler.</p><p>“Early on in camp, you could see he really knew how to play. He’s constantly making the right cut, the right pass, he’s solid,” Kerr <a href="https://x.com/kenzofuku/status/1987737572609757240?s=20" rel="noopener">explained</a>. “His fundamentals are fantastic; you can see all the experience he’s had in big games. Will, he’s a ball player, and we’re excited to have him. He’s going to contribute quite a bit for us this year.”</p><p>A big part of why Richard’s picked up the Warriors’ system so quickly is his experience at Florida. Richard spent four years in college, his freshman year at Belmont, and the rest helping the Gators contend in March. Richard played a huge part of Florida’s national championship run just months before joining the Warriors. Those are the big games, the high leverage situations, Kerr points to whenever he’s asked why Richard’s come along so fast.</p><p>But for Butler, he cited the 22-year-old’s curiosity and IQ as to why <a href="https://x.com/kenzofuku/status/1987752803452997801?s=20" rel="noopener">he’s been able to make an impact</a> for the Warriors.</p><p>“He’s hella smart,” Butler said.</p><p>“But the thing I love most about Will is his ability to listen. You tell him what to do to the best of his ability, he’s going to do it. Whether it’s on offense or it’s on defense. It’s really hard to try to please everybody. Because you could be told five things from five different people. And he’s the type of human being that’s going to try to do all five of those things everybody is telling him. They could totally contradict each other. But he’s a hella fye listener, and whatever you tell him to do, he understands it’s to win. So he’s going to do it, and he just looks incredible.”</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">More Will Richard praise, this time from Jimmy Butler:</p><p>“He’s hella smart. But the thing I love most about Will is his ability to listen. You tell him what to do to the best of his ability, he’s going to do it.”</p><p>Richard finished with 15 points and a +19 plus/minus. <a href="https://t.co/GnDolv2T1F">pic.twitter.com/GnDolv2T1F</a></p><p>— Kenzo Fukuda (@kenzofuku) <a href="https://twitter.com/kenzofuku/status/1987752803452997801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 10, 2025</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><h2>Richard’s role on the Warriors moving forward</h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Will-Richard-draws-high-praise-from-Jimmy-Butler-and-Al-Horford-as-rookie-continues-to-thrive.jpg"><figcaption>D. Ross Cameron-Imagn Images</figcaption></figure><p>As Kerr said, Richard has climbed his way into the Warriors’ rotation moving forward. But how many minutes he’ll get on a night on a night to night basis will depend on the matchup. While he’s already leapfrogged Gary Payton II and Gui Santos in the pecking order to a degree, the Warriors are a team that changes its rotation depending on the matchup. Kerr’s gone on the record about how Payton plays better when Curry’s on the floor, so with the two-time MVP returning to the fold, things could change.</p><p>And things will definitely get interesting once De’Anthony Melton fully recovers from ACL surgery. Will Kerr lean on the veteran Melton’s experience, or will he continue to ride the hot hand with the ascending Richard? For as impressive as Richard has looked, he’s still a rookie. He’ll have a couple of moments here and there where his youth shows. In important games, it’s far more likely Kerr trusts a guy like Melton, who’s been in playoff games.</p><p>Regardless, it’s clear Richard’s an NBA-caliber player. That’s already far and above what they were expecting of him as a second-rounder.</p><p>“I’m just impressed with how quick he’s picking everything up. How used to he’s getting playing in the NBA,” Horford continued. “Because it’s not an easy transition. And to be a part of a team that’s a veteran team, he’s coming in and finding his way. It’s not that simple, you know? If you’re on a bad team and doing those things, it’s kind of expected. To be on a contending team like us and doing what he’s doing, that’s impressive.”</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Asked Al Horford about how Will Richard can change the vibe of a game with his energy off the bench:</p><p>“I’ve been very impressed with his maturity and how he’s been able to handle all the tasks thrown at him.”</p><p>Emphasized how hard that is to do as a rookie on a contending team. <a href="https://t.co/HLuIz3PDVQ">pic.twitter.com/HLuIz3PDVQ</a></p><p>— Kenzo Fukuda (@kenzofuku) <a href="https://twitter.com/kenzofuku/status/1987742851820867763?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 10, 2025</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>As Horford and Butler gushed about, Richard’s IQ and curiosity will take him far in this league moving forward.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Warriors’ Will Richard draws high praise from Jimmy Butler and Al Horford as rookie shines in Pacers win

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/nba/golden-state-warriors/stephen-curry-al-horford-playing-tonight-warriors-pacers-injury-report');   ga('set', 'title', 'Are Stephen Curry, Al Horford playing tonight? 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Warriors vs. Pacers injury report</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2025-11-09T11:45:53-08:00">November 9th, 11:45am</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2025-11-09T11:45:53-08:00">November 9th, 11:45am</time><address><a>David Yapkowitz</a>David Yapkowitz is an NBA Associate Editor at ClutchPoints. He is a credentialed reporter based in Los Angeles who covers the NBA/WNBA, NCAA/NCAAW and boys/girls high school basketball.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">Golden State Warriors</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>The Golden State Warriors host the Indiana Pacers on Sunday night. Stephen Curry is on the Warriors’ injury report alongside Al Horford, with both players <a href="https://ak-static.cms.nba.com/referee/injury/Injury-Report_2025-11-09_01PM.pdf">listed as questionable</a>, as per the NBA’s official injury report. <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba/golden-state-warriors/warriors-news-stephen-curry-remains-out-nuggets-illness">Curry is dealing with an illness</a>, while Horford has a left foot strain. Here’s everything we know about Stephen Curry and Al Horford’s injury and their playing status vs. the Pacers.</p><h2><b>Stephen Curry, Al Horford’s injury status vs. Pacers</b></h2><p>Perhaps the main question surrounding the Warriors game against the Pacers on Sunday is what Stephen Curry’s status will be. Curry was sidelined during the Warriors’ NBA Cup game against the Denver Nuggets on Friday, resulting in a 129-104 loss. The Nuggets loss was also the second consecutive game that Curry missed.</p><p>This season, Curry has appeared in eight games for the Warriors, at a little over 31 minutes per game. He’s been averaging 26.8 points, 3.6 rebounds, 4.3 assists and 1.5 steals with splits of 45.4 percent shooting from the field, 38.9 percent shooting from the three-point line and 95.3 percent shooting from the free-throw line.</p><p>In the case of Al Horford, the Warriors big man has been dealing with a foot injury that also sidelined him for the loss against the Nuggets on Friday. Horford has missed a total of four games this season while coming off the bench for the Warriors.</p><p>In total, he’s appeared in six games at just about 22 minutes per game. <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba/golden-state-warriors/warriors-news-is-al-horford-washed-steve-kerr-defiant-promise">He’s been averaging a career-low</a> 4.5 points, 4.5 rebounds and 1.3 assists with splits of 29.7 percent shooting from the field and 20.8 percent shooting from the three-point line.</p><p>With Curry, his final status likely won’t be revealed until closer to game time and depending on how he’s feeling. Horford is probably the player most likely to be sidelined again.</p><h2><b>Warriors injury report</b></h2><p>-Stephen Curry; questionable(illness)<br>-Al Horford; questionable(left foot strain)<br>-De’Anthony Melton; out(left ACL surgery)</p><h2><b>Pacers injury report</b></h2><p>-Not yet submitted</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Are Stephen Curry, Al Horford playing tonight? Warriors vs. Pacers injury report

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/nba/golden-state-warriors/warriors-news-is-al-horford-washed-steve-kerr-defiant-promise');   ga('set', 'title', 'Is Al Horford washed? 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Warriors’ Steve Kerr makes defiant promise</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2025-11-06T07:30:15-08:00">November 6th, 7:30am</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2025-11-06T07:30:15-08:00">November 6th, 7:30am</time><address><a>Josue Pavon</a>Josue Pavon is an Associate Editor and the Oklahoma City Thunder beat writer for ClutchPoints. He started his career as a credentialed media member writing about the Boston Celtics for WEEI.com in Boston, where he grew into a local on-camera NBA reporter and podcast host for CLNS Media. Alongside the Celtics radio broadcaster and two-time NBA champion Cedric Maxwell, Josue is the co-host of the Cedric Maxwell podcast.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">Golden State Warriors</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>Steve Kerr and the Golden State Warriors dropped their fourth game in five tries in a 121-116 loss to the Sacramento Kings, while Al Horford’s offensive struggles off the bench continued. He finished the game scoreless on 0-for-8 attempts, including seven missed threes. After <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba/golden-state-warriors/warriors-news-jonathan-kuminga-named-starter-over-al-horford-vs-lakers">Jonathan Kuminga earned the Warriors’ starting center job</a>, Horford, alongside Buddy Hield, has anchored Kerr’s second unit.</p><p>After the Warriors’ loss to the Kings on Wednesday, Kerr discussed Horford’s <a href="https://twitter.com/anthonyVslater/status/1986315825167679545" rel="noopener">impact off the bench</a>, unfazed by the shooting struggles. Kerr is confident that Al will turn things around, he said, per ESPN’s Anthony Slater.</p><p>“I thought Al played a great basketball game tonight. The ball didn’t go in. He took all the right shots. They all looked good. They’re going to go in. He’s Al Horford,” Kerr said. “We know what kind of shooter he is. His presence defensively and his rebounding — he’s a hell of a player. A slow start for him. To be expected, honestly, when you go to a new team. I’m not worried about Al at all.”</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Al Horford is 5-of-24 from 3 six games into his Warriors tenure. He missed all seven tonight. </p><p>“I thought Al played a great basketball game tonight. The ball didn’t go in. He took all the right shots. They all looked good. They’re going to go in. He’s Al Horford.” <a href="https://t.co/Vl0MDFfmBG">pic.twitter.com/Vl0MDFfmBG</a></p><p>— Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) <a href="https://twitter.com/anthonyVslater/status/1986315825167679545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2025</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>Kerr’s only advice to the veteran center is to “keep playing.” Things should turn around soon as Al Horford adapts to his new surroundings with the Warriors.</p><h2><b>Draymond Green on Steve Kerr’s potential Warriors exit</b></h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Warriors-head-coach-Steve-Kerr.jpg"><figcaption>Ed Szczepanski-Imagn Images</figcaption></figure><p>Amid Warriors head coach Steve Kerr’s last season of his contract, veteran Draymond Green weighed in on a potential exit. <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba/golden-state-warriors/warriors-news-draymond-green-steve-kerr-prediction-amid-buzz-of-potential-exit">Green wants to be coached </a><a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba/golden-state-warriors/warriors-news-draymond-green-steve-kerr-prediction-amid-buzz-of-potential-exit" rel="noopener">only by Kerr</a> and can’t imagine playing for anyone else.</p><p>Green <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6774653/2025/11/04/draymond-green-all-time-defenders-push-legacy-nba/" rel="noopener">discussed what could be</a> Kerr’s final season, per The Athletic’s Sam Amick.</p><p>“Steph has already said publicly that he doesn’t want to play for another coach,” Green said. “I struggle with change. I hate change. I am very much so (the type of person where) this thing happens like this and that’s that. To try to shift that, my brain just doesn’t do well. But I don’t sit and think about it because I don’t foresee Steve going anywhere.”</p><p>For Green, there’s still a lot of work to do.</p><p>“I don’t think we’re done. I think we’ve still got a lot left to give,” Green said. “We’ve all done this together, so I don’t foresee him going anywhere anyway. But I very much so want to finish this thing with the people that I’ve been through it with.”</p><p>The Warriors will face the Nuggets in an NBA Cup matchup on Friday.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Is Al Horford washed? Warriors’ Steve Kerr makes defiant promise

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He is in his first season as the Golden State Valkyries and Warriors beat reporter after three seasons of covering Cal Bears basketball. Kenzo is also an avid filmmaker and holds extensive knowledge of basketball.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">Golden State Warriors</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>SAN FRANCISCO– The Golden State Warriors will remain strict in their plan for <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba/golden-state-warriors/warriors-news-al-horford-back-to-back-status-gets-firm-steve-kerr-confirmation">managing Al Horford’s health</a> in his 19th season in the NBA. The 39-year-old center <a href="https://x.com/kenzofuku/status/1982536754134692148" rel="noopener">will not play against</a> the Memphis Grizzlies, the front end of their upcoming back-to-back, according to head coach Steve Kerr. Horford will be available the following night against the Los Angeles Clippers, which will give him a full four days of rest since the Warriors’ overtime win against the Nuggets the previous week.</p><p>After practice Sunday morning, Kerr explained some of the reasoning behind resting Horford against the Grizzlies instead of against the Clippers.</p><p>“We always take [the matchups] into consideration. Against Portland [or Denver], it was always a pretty easy choice, dealing with [Nikola] Jokic,” Kerr told reporters. “I would say this one is a much more difficult decision because Memphis, you know, Jaren Jackson Jr. is obviously a great player. But we opted to play him against the Clippers, [as Ivica] Zubac has given us trouble. It’s a really big team, so that’s the way we’ll go with this one.”</p><p>Against Golden State last season, Zubac averaged 17.5 points, 15.8 rebounds, and 3.8 assists. The Dubs struggled to keep the big man off the boards, lacking the playable size options to help Draymond Green in the frontcourt. Horford’s presence was missed against the Trail Blazers as Portland scored a whopping 66 points in the paint. </p><p>“We’ll lean into our depth and keep playing people in combinations we believe in and hopefully use our depth to get through this next back-to-back.”</p><h2>Update on Moses Moody’s health</h2><p>The Warriors plan to only play Horford on one end of back-to-back games will be the plan moving forward, as Kerr has stressed multiple times this season. It’s the same load management plan the Boston Celtics and Joe Mazzulla used with Horford during his time there, and the Dubs will remain strict with that procedure.</p><p>On the other end of the Warriors’ health updates, <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba/golden-state-warriors/warriors-news-warriors-optimistic-moses-moody-debut-vs-blazers">Moses Moody returned to the rotation</a> in Portland. Kerr described Moody’s performance versus the Blazers as a game for Moody to “get his feet wet” and refind his rhythm after being sidelined with a calf injury the past two weeks. Moody told reporters that his calf injury was “really minor.”</p><p>“No structural damage or anything,” Moody said. “I got the MRI and everything. Really it was just strengthening it. It was precautionary and yeah, I’m in a good place.”</p><p>Moody will certainly be an option for Kerr to start once he returns to full form with his defense and spacing capabilities. When asked what’s harder to regain his rhythm, his shooting or his defensive flow, when returning from injury, Moody emphasized finding <a href="https://x.com/kenzofuku/status/1982555576447189364" rel="noopener">his role in different lineups</a>.</p><p>“I would say, it’s a different flow for different groups you’re on the floor with. So just finding your group and finding your role within that group takes some getting used to,” Moody said. “But defensively, I think that’s pretty self-explanitory. Once you got the rotations down, once you got the principles, then I think that comes back pretty fast.”</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Asked Warriors’ Moses Moody what’s harder to regain, shooting rhythm or defense flow, when returning from injury:</p><p>“It’s a different flow for different groups you’re on the floor with so just finding your group and finding your role within that group takes some getting used to.” <a href="https://t.co/10LjinVVQj">pic.twitter.com/10LjinVVQj</a></p><p>— Kenzo Fukuda (@kenzofuku) <a href="https://twitter.com/kenzofuku/status/1982555576447189364?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 26, 2025</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>The Warriors will look to build off a strong first week of the season with the Grizzlies-Clippers back-to-back.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Why Warriors are sitting Al Horford vs. Grizzlies, not Clippers on back-to-back

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/nba/golden-state-warriors/warriors-news-al-horford-nba-protect-players-gambling-problems');   ga('set', 'title', 'Warriors’ Al Horford urges NBA to ‘protect the players’ amid fans’ growing gambling problems');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/USATSI_27350467_168403981_lowres.jpg"><figcaption>D. Ross Cameron-Imagn Images</figcaption></figure><h1>Warriors’ Al Horford urges NBA to ‘protect the players’ amid fans’ growing gambling problems</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2025-10-23T14:53:14-07:00">October 23rd, 2:53pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2025-10-23T14:53:14-07:00">October 23rd, 2:53pm</time><address><a href="http://kenzofukuda.com">Kenzo Fukuda</a>Kenzo Fukuda (he/him) is a Japanese and Chinese American journalist and writer born and raised in San Francisco, CA. He is in his first season as the Golden State Valkyries and Warriors beat reporter after three seasons of covering Cal Bears basketball. Kenzo is also an avid filmmaker and holds extensive knowledge of basketball.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">Golden State Warriors</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>The aftershocks of Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier and Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups’ arrests this morning, related to a federal investigation into <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba/nba-stories/nba-news-sports-world-reacts-fbi-gambling-arrests-terry-rozier-chauncy-billups">illegal sports gambling activities and illegal poker games</a>, have begun to reverberate around the league.</p><p>After the Golden State Warriors’ shootaround ahead of their home opener against the Denver Nuggets on Thursday, veteran center Al Horford spoke briefly on the stunning news that <a href="https://x.com/kenzofuku/status/1981425932838850751" rel="noopener">came out just hours earlier</a>.</p><p>“I think it’s something that there’s still more information that needs to come out,” Horford said. “Just going to have to wait and see. You’re given a chance and just have to wait it out. But definitely, I just want to wait for an outcome there. Don’t want to jump to conclusions right away.”</p><p><a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba/miami-heat/heat-news-terry-rozier-puts-6-million-home-up-collateral-federal-bond">Rozier and Billups’ gambling-related arrests</a> have taken the league at large by firestorm. While fans have made numerous jokes about the situation, writers, critics, and reporters have pointed out how the NBA itself and the sport in general have become increasingly tied to the legal sports gambling business.</p><p>For Horford, who’s in his 19th season in the league, also made a strong statement regarding how the fans’ relationships and interactions with the players have changed over time as betting and betting advertisements have grown with the league.</p><p>“Absolutely, yeah,” Horford answered to a follow-up about how fan interactions have worsened.</p><p>“It’s much different. It looks aggressive at times. And I understand we are professional athletes, this is the world we’re in and everything. But I think the league itself has to step in and probably do more to protect the players. And to be better. All of this comes with it; it’s the fan engagement. But also, there’s that other part.”</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Al Horford also talked about how the fan-player relationship has become “aggressive” as sports gambling has become more prominent:</p><p>“I understand that we are professional athletes… but I think the league itself has to step in and probably do more to protect the players.” <a href="https://t.co/pQrAhsWNWn">https://t.co/pQrAhsWNWn</a> <a href="https://t.co/tAjZpooZhq">pic.twitter.com/tAjZpooZhq</a></p><p>— Kenzo Fukuda (@kenzofuku) <a href="https://twitter.com/kenzofuku/status/1981427779779621329?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 23, 2025</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><h2><b>Safety is a big concern among NBA players</b></h2><p>Early this year, a disgruntled bettor shared his direct messages on Instagram with Timberwolves big man Naz Reid in which the bettor clearly antagonized Reid for not accumulating enough stats to pay off his parlay. Knicks star Jalen Brunson told The Athletic the bulk of the fan messages on his social media account tend to be threats from people who’ve lost out on bets because of him.</p><p><a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba/nba-stories/nba-news-players-rant-gambling-partnerships">And in a poll conducted</a> by The Athletic last season, 46% of players surveyed believe gambling partnerships <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6298159/2025/04/22/nba-player-poll-gambling-partnerships/" rel="noopener">are bad for the league.</a> One anonymous player described the practice as “predatory,” while another shared how their DMs are filled with hateful messages.</p><p>The players have real concerns over what that means for them. Hence why Horford made a point to urge the league to put measures in place to protect them. And in conjunction with the Rozier and Billups arrests, it’s an issue that the league will have to address, especially as the NBA’s business side becomes more involved in the gambling industry.</p><p>“It’s a very interesting time; it’s the first time as a league and a society we’re all living and going through it,” Horford continued. “So I’m sure it will be worked out, and that will be better. But that comes with the territory and something we have to deal with.”</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Warriors’ Al Horford urges NBA to ‘protect the players’ amid fans’ growing gambling problems

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He grew up in a New York sports-heavy region in Connecticut and earned his journalism degree at the University of Rhode Island. His in-depth knowledge of two of the most passionate and raucous fan bases in the country gives him a truly unique writing voice.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">Golden State Warriors</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>Although it took several months to reach a conclusion to the Jonathan Kuminga contract saga, the Golden State Warriors understand how important the 23-year-old forward is to their 2025-26 blueprint. And that is why they are <a href="https://x.com/BrettSiegelNBA/status/1980769418759086291" rel="noopener">inserting him into the starting five</a> for Tuesday night’s <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba/golden-state-warriors/sources-jimmy-butler-jonathan-kuminga-will-play-vs-lakers">season-opening showdown with the Los Angeles Lakers</a>, via ClutchPoints NBA insider Brett Siegel.</p><p>The Dubs are rolling with Kuminga instead of veteran big man Al Horford, choosing to employ a small-ball lineup against Luka Doncic and company. Amid all the concerns about how the former No. 7 overall draft pick and head coach Steve Kerr would coexist this year, the latter is placing a strong amount of trust in the former right at the onset.</p><p><a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba/golden-state-warriors/warriors-news-al-horford-back-to-back-status-gets-firm-steve-kerr-confirmation">Horford brings loads of experience</a> with him to the Bay Area and proved he could still log considerable minutes in his second stint with the Boston Celtics, but he will be best utilized as a dependable role player who can make an impact on both sides of the floor. If this squad wants to raise its ceiling to championship contention-heights, it needs Kuminga to take a definitive leap forward.</p><p>The native of the Democratic Republic of the Congo enjoyed a breakout campaign in 2023-24 before fading into the background last season. He averaged 15.3 points, 4.6 rebounds and 2.2 assists in 47 games for the Warriors. Kuminga signed a two-year, $46.8 million contract that carries a team option for 2026-27, so he should be brimming with motivation moving forward.</p><p>While there is speculation that Golden State could look to move him before the trade deadline, Stephen Curry, Draymond Green, Jimmy Butler and the rest of this team are counting on the 2022 NBA champion to help them reclaim the Western Conference throne. Jonathan Kuminga will try to help the Dubs conquer the Lakers in Crypto.com Arena, and he may just make a statement in the process. The action tips off at approximately 10 p.m. ET.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Warriors’ Jonathan Kuminga named starter over Al Horford vs. Lakers

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He is in his first season as the Golden State Valkyries and Warriors beat reporter after three seasons of covering Cal Bears basketball. Kenzo is also an avid filmmaker and holds extensive knowledge of basketball.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">Editorials</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>SAN FRANCISCO– As one of the oldest teams in the NBA, <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba/golden-state-warriors/what-we-learned-warriors-preseason-2025">the challenge for the Golden State Warriors</a> this season will be maintaining their health over the course of 82 games. That means managing the minutes of their stars Stephen Curry, Jimmy Butler, and Draymond Green, as well as strictly regimenting the games <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba/golden-state-warriors/warriors-news-3-observations-al-horford-debut">39-year-old center Al Horford plays</a> this year.</p><p>After the Warriors’ practice Monday morning, head coach Steve Kerr reconfirmed that Horford will not play both ends on back-to-back games this season, a carryover from how the Boston Celtics and Joe Mazzulla managed the <a href="https://x.com/kenzofuku/status/1980356814991675691" rel="noopener">veteran center’s rest</a>.</p><p>“Al [Horford] won’t play in the back-to-back,” Kerr said, referring to the upcoming back-to-back versus Denver then Portland later this week. “We announced that already, he’s not going to play in any back-to-backs all year. So that changes the rotation for one of those two games, depending on which one we choose Al for.”</p><p>The Warriors have 15 back-to-back stretches this season, which pencils Horford in for missing at least 15 games strictly due to rest. Last season, Horford played 60 games for Boston, starting 42 of them. That is around the benchmark for Horford this season as he did not play more than 69 games the past four seasons but no fewer than 60.</p><p>Later, Kerr talked about the Warriors’ plan for determining which end of these back-to-backs Horford will rest and how they will evaluate his health as the season progresses.</p><p>“That will be something we visit on every week. It’ll be Rick [Celebrini, Warriors’ VP of Player Health and Performance] and me, and the player involved, and we’ll hash it out. We’ll have a plan, and then the plan may get obliterated based on something happening. But we’ll definitely have it mapped out each week.”</p><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Al-Horford-envisions-Dubs-being-his-final-team-before-retirement.jpg"><figcaption>© John Hefti-Imagn Images</figcaption></figure><h2>How Al Horford’s back-to-back status affects Golden State’s rotation</h2><p>Load managing Horford is all in the quest of getting to the postseason intact and healthy. However, their plan presents important rotational questions that Kerr and the team have acknowledged. Kerr has been mostly non-committal to a set-in-stone starting five – though on Monday, Kerr did hint that he has a starting lineup finalized for the season opener against the Lakers that he declined to share.</p><p>Part of that open-endedness of the starting lineup stems from factors of how restricting Horford’s minutes affects who he plays with and when in the game he’s on the floor.</p><p>“It’s hard to start a guy if he’s only playing 20 [minutes] and [have him] finish the game,” Kerr said last week. “If he starts and finishes, he’s sitting almost the entire middle part of the game, which is very awkward. So you have to factor that in; we have to factor in Draymond. I don’t want him guarding seven-footers for 82 games. So we might end up with, you know, multiple starting lineups. We haven’t decided.”</p><p><a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba/golden-state-warriors/warriors-news-moses-moody-dealing-calf-injury">Moses Moody’s calf injury,</a> which will hold him out for the season opener and potentially a little longer, also complicates things because they plan for him to be their de facto POA wing defender. Kerr told reporters that he and his coaching staff have held extensive talks about the rotation.</p><p>“Some teams some years, you spend five minutes on the rotation, you see it, it’s clear as day, and you move on to the next subject. We just talked for an hour today as a coaching staff on all the possible five-man combinations. This is not a clean clear look right now, especially without Moses. That’s another part of the equation. The one thing I know is I feel very comfortable playing 12-13 different guys.”</p><h2>Al Horford’s longevity in the NBA</h2><p>Regardless of their rotation question marks, Golden State will stick to their load management plan with Horford. Led by Celebrini, the Warriors are one of the strictest teams in the league when it comes to maintaining their players’ health. They tend to err on the side of caution when it comes to players returning from injury, rarely rushing players back before they are 100%.</p><p>For Horford, he understands the plan to maintain his health so they can have him available when it matters.</p><p>“I feel like the performing staff and the medical group here does a really good job with that,” Horford said after the final preseason game when asked about the team’s load managing plan for him.</p><p>“As soon as I got here, they’ve been helping me to put me in the best position to be ready to perform. And for me, it’s really just staying consistent with that and that plan. And understanding we play very differently here. The game is faster and there’s different challenges. For me it’s making sure I’m doing everything I can to stay healthy and ready to play.”</p><p>Horford will make his regular season debut for the Warriors in Los Angeles tomorrow.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Al Horford’s back-to-back status gets firm confirmation from Warriors HC Steve Kerr

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/nba/golden-state-warriors/warriors-news-al-horford-dubs-final-team-before-retirement');   ga('set', 'title', 'Al Horford envisions Warriors being his final team before retirement');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Al-Horford-envisions-Dubs-being-his-final-team-before-retirement.jpg"><figcaption>© John Hefti-Imagn Images</figcaption></figure><h1>Al Horford envisions Warriors being his final team before retirement</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2025-10-14T10:12:52-07:00">October 14th, 10:12am</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2025-10-14T10:12:52-07:00">October 14th, 10:12am</time><address><a href="https://linktr.ee/colinloughran">Colin Loughran</a>Colin Loughran is a NYC-based Associate Editor at ClutchPoints. He has spent several years covering sports and has worked for outlets such as the New York Post, AP Radio, and FanSided. Colin is also a three-time NYSBA award winner and a proud graduate of Fordham University.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">Golden State Warriors</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>Veteran center <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba/golden-state-warriors/warriors-news-al-horford-free-agency-contract">Al Horford officially signed a multi-year contract with the Golden State Warriors</a> late last month, and it appears as though the five-time All-Star knows his career is winding down.</p><p>Horford recently told Nick Friedell of The Athletic that <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6714977/2025/10/14/al-horford-celtics-warriors-nba/" rel="noopener">he envisions</a> Golden State as the last franchise he will play for.</p><p>“Horford never thought he would leave Boston, but now he is hopeful that San Francisco is the final stop in his NBA journey,” Friedell wrote. “He knows anything can happen in the league, but he believes the Warriors will be his last team.”</p><p>“Yeah, I think so,” Horford said. “I think at this point in my career, where I see everything, that is my expectation, just to be here.”</p><p>The 39-year-old was <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba/golden-state-warriors/warriors-news-stephen-curry-draymond-green-convinced-al-horford-dubs">encouraged to join the Warriors by Stephen Curry and Draymond Green</a> this past offseason, and will hope to make an impact as the group attempts to compete in an extremely talented Western Conference.</p><p>Horford helped the Boston Celtics bring home an NBA title in 2024, and will hope to add a layer of championship experience and adaptability in short order.</p><p>“As a newcomer, I don’t have all the answers,” Horford said. “I’m coming in with a mindset that I’m gonna learn, and I’m trying to understand how they operate, how they do things. I’ve played against them for a lot of years. I’ve covered their system, so I understand certain things, and I don’t really fully understand what it’s like to be a Warrior. So, for me, I’m coming in here trying to learn. I’m trying to learn as quick as I can because I don’t have all the time in the world. We’re trying to do some really special things here, and it’s just trying to get acclimated as quickly as I can with coach (Steve Kerr), with his terminology, with the players, things that they like, things that they don’t. Just trying to fit into the system.”</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Al Horford envisions Warriors being his final team before retirement

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/nba/golden-state-warriors/warriors-news-stephen-curry-draymond-green-convinced-al-horford-dubs');   ga('set', 'title', 'How Warriors’ Stephen Curry, Draymond Green convinced Al Horford to join Dubs');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/How-Stephen-Curry-Draymond-Green-convinced-Al-Horford-to-join-Dubs.jpg"><figcaption>© Cary Edmondson-Imagn Images</figcaption></figure><h1>How Warriors’ Stephen Curry, Draymond Green convinced Al Horford to join Dubs</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2025-10-14T08:39:17-07:00">October 14th, 8:39am</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2025-10-14T08:39:17-07:00">October 14th, 8:39am</time><address><a href="https://linktr.ee/colinloughran">Colin Loughran</a>Colin Loughran is a NYC-based Associate Editor at ClutchPoints. He has spent several years covering sports and has worked for outlets such as the New York Post, AP Radio, and FanSided. Colin is also a three-time NYSBA award winner and a proud graduate of Fordham University.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">Golden State Warriors</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>The NBA regular season is around the corner, and the Golden State Warriors will enter the fresh campaign with center <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba/golden-state-warriors/warriors-news-what-al-horford-will-take-advantage-of-playing-with-stephen-curry">Al Horford ready to play alongside fellow veterans Stephen Curry</a> and Draymond Green.</p><p><a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba/golden-state-warriors/warriors-news-al-horford-free-agency-contract">Horford inked a multi-year contract to join the Warriors late in September</a>, and the five-time All-Star recently said that the conversations he enjoyed with both Curry and Green were <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6714977/2025/10/14/al-horford-celtics-warriors-nba/" rel="noopener">key reasons behind his decision</a> to sign with the team.</p><p>“The Warriors provided the type of well-run team — and championship opportunity this season — that made the move smoother, and Horford thought he would fit within their mix of high-level veterans and younger players looking to make their own mark,” wrote Nick Friedell of The Athletic. “Horford said at his opening news conference last week that he did not have a relationship with Warriors team leaders Stephen Curry and Draymond Green before signing with Golden State. But once it became clear that playing with the Warriors was a possibility, he started to get a recruiting pitch from both.”</p><p>“Yeah, I had communication with them, with Steph and Draymond,” Horford said. “And that was important. It happened very fast because it was at a point where they came to me and they’re like, ‘Hey, we’d love to have you,’ and all these things. And it was one of these things that, for me, looking at this fit and the potential, it just felt right. So them reaching out to me was important.”</p><p>An 18-year veteran, Horford helped the Boston Celtics win an NBA title in 2024, and could be a difference-maker for a Golden State team that is hoping to compete in a crowded Western Conference field.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

How Warriors’ Stephen Curry, Draymond Green convinced Al Horford to join Dubs

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/nba/golden-state-warriors/warriors-news-what-al-horford-will-take-advantage-of-playing-with-stephen-curry');   ga('set', 'title', 'What Warriors’ Al Horford will ‘take advantage of’ playing with Stephen Curry');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Golden-State-Warriors-forward-Al-Horford.jpg"><figcaption>David Gonzales-Imagn Images</figcaption></figure><h1>What Warriors’ Al Horford will ‘take advantage of’ playing with Stephen Curry</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2025-10-07T14:30:43-07:00">October 7th, 2:30pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2025-10-07T14:30:43-07:00">October 7th, 2:30pm</time><address><a>Zachary Howell</a>Zachary Howell is an Associate Editor at ClutchPoints focusing on creating premier MLB content. He is a big fan of the Yankees, Oklahoma City Thunder and the Syracuse Orange. In his free time, he likes to be outside or read.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">Golden State Warriors</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>The Golden State Warriors took their time to make moves during the NBA offseason. However, <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba/golden-state-warriors/warriors-news-insider-claims-jonathan-kuminga-peace-inking-new-contract">Golden State agreed to a contract with Jonathan Kuminga</a>, kicking off a flurry of moves. One of the biggest was the addition of Al Horford to the roster. He joins one of the older rosters in the NBA, but Warriors head coach Steve Kerr has a handful of new weapons at his disposal.</p><p>Horford was a key piece of the Boston Celtics team that won a championship in 2024. The veteran center is in the later stages of his career, but he is still an effective player on the floor. Now, he has a chance to play alongside Stephen Curry, one of the NBA’s scariest superstars. Horford spoke to ESPN’s Anthony Slater about what having Curry on his team <a href="https://x.com/anthonyVslater/status/1975666959464485031" rel="noopener">does for him offensively</a>.</p><p>“For me, it’s just continuing to play off of his energy,” Horford said about Curry. “He does such a good job terrifying everyone in the league every time he moves. That’s something I’m going to really take advantage of.”</p><p><a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba/golden-state-warriors/warriors-news-al-horford-free-agency-contract">Horford’s arrival to Golden State</a> gives Curry something he has not had since playing with DeMarcus Cousins. The center can space the floor, opening up driving lanes for the Warriors superstar to exploit as a part of Kerr’s offensive schemes. For a team that relied on Kevon Looney and Quinten Post last season, Horford is a breath of fresh air.</p><p>The Warriors’ season ended in the second round of the Western Conference playoffs. <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba/golden-state-warriors/mind-blowing-stephen-curry-stat-may-have-led-to-hamstring-injury">Curry went down with a hamstring injury against the Minnesota Timberwolves</a> and never returned, dooming Golden State. Now that he is healthy and has new teammates around him, the Warriors are optimistic about their chances.</p><p>If Horford can continue to mesh well with Curry and his new teammates, the sky’s the limit for Golden State.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

What Warriors’ Al Horford will ‘take advantage of’ playing with Stephen Curry

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/nba/golden-state-warriors/warriors-news-al-horford-unspoken-chemistry-stephen-curry-preseason');   ga('set', 'title', 'Al Horford’s ‘unspoken chemistry’ elevates Warriors, Stephen Curry in preseason');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Al-Horford-warming-up.jpg"><figcaption>Brian Fluharty-Imagn Images</figcaption></figure><h1>Al Horford’s ‘unspoken chemistry’ elevates Warriors, Stephen Curry in preseason</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2025-10-06T08:42:07-07:00">October 6th, 8:42am</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2025-10-06T08:42:07-07:00">October 6th, 8:42am</time><address><a>Brett Siegel</a>Brett Siegel joined ClutchPoints as a credentialed NBA insider and reporter in May 2023 after previously covering the NBA for Fastbreak on FanNation and NBA Analysis Network, as well as working with Louisville Basketball. From playing to coaching to covering the game as a media member, Brett has been involved with the game of basketball from many different perspectives. Breaking the news of various free agent signings, yearly NBA Draft news and other key stories around the league, Brett is always on the phone, getting the latest news and rumors around the NBA. Be sure to follow him on Twitter @BrettSiegelNBA.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">Golden State Warriors</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>Even at 39 years old and entering his 19th NBA season, Al Horford remains a highly impactful and efficient player. This is especially true now that he is playing alongside experienced All-Stars like Stephen Curry and Jimmy Butler on the Golden State Warriors, a team where his unique style of play fits in perfectly.</p><p>Although he may not have<a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba/golden-state-warriors/warriors-news-al-horford-free-agency-contract"> officially signed with the Warriors</a> until the start of training camp, Golden State knew they were adding Horford all offseason long. The veteran big man was the Dubs’ top free-agency target this summer, and after one preseason game, it’s clear to see why that was.</p><p>The Warriors defeated the Los Angeles Lakers 111-103 in their first preseason game on Sunday night, as <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba/golden-state-warriors/warriors-news-3-observations-al-horford-debut">Horford made his debut for Golden State</a> with three points, four rebounds, three assists, and three blocks in 14 minutes off the bench.</p><p>Horford did a little bit of everything in his first action as a member of the Warriors, but what stood out the most was that the five-time All-Star and NBA champion seemed like he’s been playing with this group for years.</p><p>Aside from making the game easier for the young players on the Warriors’ roster, Horford already seems to be comfortable playing alongside Curry and Butler. That became very clear when Horford found Curry on an easy give-and-go layup early in the game.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Stephen Curry and Al Horford play the give-and-go to perfection 💯 <a href="https://t.co/Gpi9qRtfo1">pic.twitter.com/Gpi9qRtfo1</a></p><p>— NBA Australia (@NBA_AU) <a href="https://twitter.com/NBA_AU/status/1975011487866597686?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 6, 2025</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>Horford is a <a href="https://x.com/kenzofuku/status/1975042074648146255" rel="noopener">calming presence</a> for this championship-experienced Dubs squad, and he will fill a role that many before him, like David Lee, David West, Andrew Bogut, and Andre Iguodala, have filled over the last decade — the role of the veteran leader who bridges the gaps between the team’s stars.</p><p>“An experienced, championship-caliber player that can fit with any lineup out there. He gives space, he gives his presence on the defensive end; you saw the pass he made to me out of the corner,” Curry said in his postgame comments about Horford, via ClutchPoints’ Warriors reporter Kenzo Fukuda. “It’s just kind of the unspoken chemistry that will continue to get better. He is multidimensional as a 5-man.</p><p>“I’m excited to see what that looks like for me, for Jimmy, for JK (Jonathan Kuminga), and for Draymond (Green). Any lineup, you can throw him out there at the five, and he lifts the group.”</p><p>Throughout the 2025-26 NBA season, the Warriors will utilize Horford in many different ways, similar to how Joe Mazzulla and the Boston Celtics used the veteran through the years. Horford was an integral part of the Celtics’ recent championship run in 2024, and the Dubs will look to use him in a similar way.</p><p>However, unlike when he was with the Celtics, Horford is now with a team that has already won a championship — four since 2015, to be specific.</p><p>Very few teams in the NBA have three experienced, unselfish stars like Curry, Butler, and Green who can all play off one another in a very unselfish manner. Now, with another skilled veteran like Horford in the equation, Steve Kerr <a href="https://www.nba.com/warriors/videos/postgame-warriors-talk-steve-kerr-10-5-25" rel="noopener">recognizes how special</a> of an opportunity his team has entering the new year.</p><p>“To see the size, shooting ability, passing ability, and just the flow of the game. What an addition he is,” Kerr said of Horford’s debut. “We can play him with anybody… He fits any lineup. He makes any lineup better. We’re lucky to have him.</p><p>“This is a guy who’s been around a long time and has seen everything. The game comes very naturally to him.”</p><p>It usually takes weeks, sometimes months, for players to build a strong bond and chemistry with one another. Already, Horford fits like a glove alongside Curry and others in Kerr’s system.</p><p>That is why the Warriors believe his impact can help elevate this group back into the championship equation in the Western Conference during the 2025-26 season.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

2025-26 SEASON STATS
PTS	REB	AST	BLK	STL
5.8	4.3	1.8	1.0	1.0

2025-26 SEASON STATS
PTS	REB	AST	BLK	STL
5.8	4.3	1.8	1.0	1.0

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