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Warriors Make Draymond Green Announcement on Tuesday

Originally posted on EssentiallySports | By Caroline John | Last updated Nov 25, 2025 10:27 PM ET

The Warriors’ old guard might be up for a reunion. After missing yesterday’s game against the Utah Jazz, which ended in an end of their losing skid, Draymond Green might just be on the again. This one is meaningful because it’s the penultimate NBA Cup game, it’s against the Houston Rockets, and Kevin Durant might play. It will be the first game between the Rockets and Warriors since their last playoff matchup.

Draymond Green is listed as probable for tonight’s game. But he’s still suffering from a midfoot sprain on his right leg. So it’s not confirmed if he really will be on the floor.

According to some insiders, it’s more than likely that Green won’t sit out this NBA Cup matchup. Their maiden inseason title hopes hangs in the balance with today’s games in the West Group C. Golden State will be eliminated if they lose in their group or one of the other West Group teams win.

The Warriors are also down Jonathan Kuminga, who is still recovering from knee tendonitis. Al Horford is also ruled out from a sciatic knee irritation which is seemingly getting all the veterans in the league right now.

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Anthony Slater is also upgraded to probable and the team might just need him too. The team was severely shorthanded against the Utah Jazz and yet pulled off a miraculous 134-117.

But would this be a reunion between old teammates? That might still be up in the air.

Fans wanted Draymond Green and Kevin Durant’s reunion

The Houston Rockets statuses haven’t changed between the last report a day ago and the Warriors’ updated reports. Kevin Durant missed Monday’s game against the Phoenix Suns. He is likely to miss this game against another former team too.

The reason was not injury nor rest. He’s apparently missing the back-to-back games for personal reasons. That’s opened a whole other can of rumor worms.

This puts a bit of a damper on things. Not only we were eager to see KD against the Dubs, but he and Dray had built up a whole debate that needed to be settled face-to-face. Durant said on Starting 5, “You have to score baskets if you want to win a championship. Playing defense, we can get any of y’all in here to bend your legs, not touch the basketball, slide left to right, and contest the shot.”

Green fired back with a defense wins championship arguments and said, ““I think when you look at any team that won a championship, they had a great defense. And if you look at most teams that couldn’t quite get over the hump, oftentimes it’s (because) they couldn’t get stops.” When he said that, the Warriors had struggled defensively across two games despite the former DPOY’s efforts.

This was supposed to be a chance to settle it. Or a friendly reunion. Anything would’ve worked. But unless KD snuck onto the Rockets plane tonight, this might not be happening.

This article first appeared on EssentiallySports and was syndicated with permission.

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