{"id":56105,"date":"2025-04-25T08:08:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T08:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=56105"},"modified":"2025-04-25T08:08:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T08:08:49","slug":"jimmy-butler-injury-update-warriors-forward-in-serious-jeopardy-for-game-3-per-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=56105","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Butler injury update: Warriors forward \u201cin serious jeopardy\u201d for Game 3, per report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chicoer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/BNG-L-WARRIORS-0424_3df24b.jpg?w=525\" alt=\"Jimmy Butler III #10 of the Golden State Warriors is fouled by Amen Thompson #1 of the Houston Rockets in the first half in Game Two of the Western Conference First Round NBA Playoffs at Toyota Center on April 23, 2025 in Houston, Texas.  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(Photo by Tim Warner\/Getty Images) *** BESTPIX ***\n\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Butler could miss Saturday\u2019s Game 3 of the Warriors\u2019 first-round playoff series with the Rockets, according to a report Thursday, but his MRI results showed no sign of structural damage or a fracture.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania reported Thursday evening that Butler had a \u201cdeep glute muscle contusion\u201d from a fall in Wednesday\u2019s Game 2 and his status for Saturday was in \u201cserious jeopardy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Warriors have not released any information on Butler\u2019s injury since ruling him out of Wednesday\u2019s game late in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>Butler was injured in the first quarter of Wednesday night\u2019s Game 2 in Houston when he went up for a rebound and was undercut by Rockets forward Amen Thompson, who was following his own shot.<\/p>\n<p>Butler landed hard on his backside and remained in the game initially, splitting two free throws, but came out soon after and went to the locker room before the end of the quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Warriors coach Steve Kerr said he and the Warriors\u2019 coaching staff didn\u2019t think it was a dirty play by Thompson, who squeezed between Draymond Green and Houston\u2019s Steven Adams, stumbling into the legs of an airborne Butler.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t think there was anything wrong with the play,\u201d Kerr said. \u201cIt was just one of those plays.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With Butler out, Kerr turned to Jonathan Kuminga, who had not played in the Warriors\u2019 three most important games of the season over the last week and a half.<\/p>\n<p>Kuminga, a pending restricted free agent, finished with 11 points in 26 minutes on 4-of-12 shooting.<\/p>\n<p>The Warriors became a whole new team after acquiring Butler in February, going 23-8 through the rest of the regular season after he arrived, including a loss in the only game he missed.<\/p>\n<p>They have the NBA\u2019s No. 1 defense by points per possession after Butler joined the fold, and he has given them offensive direction during the key minutes when Steph Curry is off the floor.<\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: <time datetime=\"2025-04-24 19:48:34\">April 24, 2025 at 7:48 PM PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warriors star Jimmy Butler went down in the first quarter of Game 2 against the Rockets, landing hard on his backside on a rebound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":56109,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - 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