Sources: Warriors anticipating Jimmy Butler to play Sport 4 – ABC30 Fresno

SAN FRANCISCO — The Golden State Warriors expect Jimmy Butler to make his return Monday night time in Sport 4 in opposition to the Houston Rockets, league sources advised ESPN's Shams Charania.
Butler participated in a lightweight walkthrough on the staff shootaround on Monday morning. The star ahead is listed as questionable with a pelvic and deep gluteal muscle contusion damage. However he has been doing every part he can to return from receiving remedy to understanding on the courtroom prior to now 24 hours, sources advised Charania.
Butler suffered the damage late within the first quarter of Sport 2. With Butler restricted to simply eight minutes, the Warriors misplaced that recreation in Houston, 109-94. With out him on Saturday, Stephen Curry had 36 factors, 9 assists and 7 rebounds to steer Golden State to a 104-93 Sport 3 win.
"Hopefully he's again subsequent recreation," Curry mentioned of what he realized from his staff with out Butler on Saturday. "If he's not, we will nonetheless play at a excessive stage and we will win a tricky bodily playoff recreation. I believe everyone knows, we're making an attempt to win 14 extra of those. We’d like Jimmy to do this.
"But when there's a state of affairs the place someone isn’t accessible, next-man-up mentality, it's obtained to be a perception and a confidence. Two months in the past [before trading for Butler], I don't know if we had that."
Golden State is up 2-1 on this best-of-7 collection.

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