It’s technically an update but it doesn’t sound like too much has changed.
The Golden State Warriors announced on Tuesday that they’ve recently re-examined Draymond Green’s lower back/disc injury that has sidelined him for the last 12 games. Though he is “improving”, it doesn’t sound like Green is any closer to returning, and he will be re-evaluated again before the All-Star break which begins on Feb. 18.
Green’s injury has reportedly been deemed serious by the likes of longtime NBA writers Marc J. Spears and Marcus Thompson, and became a cause for concern when what was originally believed to be a calf injury turned out to be a L5-S1 disc injury in his lower back.
Here’s what Spears had to say on KNBR last week:
“I talked to him last week,” Spears told KNBR’s “Murph & Mac” last Tuesday. “He had initially a calf injury that he expected to go away and maybe be able to play on that last road trip, but they eventually found out it was also a back issue, a disc issue. Which is certainly very, very scary especially for players that get older. Or any player for that matter.
“So, now we are about a week away from an update, but I’m kind of hearing grumblings that there is no light at the end of the tunnel right now, which certainly is a scary thing for Draymond and the Warriors.”
In the 13 games Green has missed the Warriors are 9-4, but have righted the ship recently winning six straight after starting off 3-4.
Here is the official press release from the Warriors:
