Klay Thompson participated in an abbreviated team scrimmage Tuesday but Andre Iguodala did not.
SAN FRANCISCO — Coach Steve Kerr remains optimistic that Klay Thompson will be ready for the Warriors’ season opener next week but definitively ruled Andre Iguodala out for the start of the regular season.
Thompson, 32, scrimmaged for the first time with the team Tuesday ahead of the Warriors’ preseason game against the Portland Trail Blazers and could play in Golden State’s preseason finale Friday against the Denver Nuggets at Chase Center, Kerr said Tuesday. The shooting guard previously said he didn’t play in any five-on-five during the offseason because of a mental block stemming from the 2020 offseason when he ruptured his Achilles tendon in a pickup game.
And Iguodala, 38, still hasn’t played five-on-five since he decided to come out of retirement and sign a one-year deal with Golden State a day before camp opened. He won’t be ready for opening night Oct. 18 against the Lakers. “He won’t be ready for the first game,” Kerr said. “We are going to push that back and really look at the big picture. It’s an 82-game season, so we want him healthy long term. Given that he needed some time in camp and get where he needs to be, he won’t be ready by opening night.
Iguodala played in 31 regular season games, missing most of the second half of the campaign as he dealt with various injuries. A disc injury in his neck shelved him for most of the postseason, too.
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