Play‑in injury snapshot

Golden State goes into Friday night’s play-in game at Phoenix with Kristaps Porziņģis listed as questionable and three other Warriors on the injury report. (official.nba.com) The National Basketball Association’s 7 a.m. Eastern injury report for the 10 p.m. Eastern game listed Porziņģis as questionable with right ankle soreness. It also listed Quinten Post out with left foot injury management, Moses Moody out after right patellar tendon surgery, and Jimmy Butler III out for the season after right anterior cruciate ligament surgery. (official.nba.com) Phoenix had two players listed on that same report: Grayson Allen was questionable with a left hamstring strain, and Mark Williams was questionable with left foot soreness. The game is scheduled for PHX Arena in Phoenix. (official.nba.com) This is an elimination game, not a standard regular-season stop. NBC Sports’ matchup preview said the winner gets the Western Conference’s No. 8 seed and a first-round series against the top-seeded Oklahoma City Thunder, while the loser’s season ends Friday. (nbcsports.com) Butler’s absence has hung over Golden State since January 20, when the Warriors announced he would miss the rest of the 2025-26 season with a torn right anterior cruciate ligament. The team said he was injured with 7:41 left in the third quarter of a January 19 win over the Miami Heat. (nba.com) The Warriors said Butler had started all 38 of his games and was averaging 20.0 points, 5.6 rebounds, 4.9 assists and 1.5 steals when he went down. The team also said Golden State was 25-19 at the time and 50-29 since acquiring him on February 5, 2025. (nba.com) The league’s injury-report rules require teams to list players whose participation “may be affected,” with statuses due by 5 p.m. local time the day before most games. That makes Friday’s report a snapshot, not a final lineup card, with Porziņģis, Allen and Williams still subject to later updates. (official.nba.com) So the late question for Golden State is simple: whether a win-or-go-home game starts with Porziņģis available, and whether a roster already missing Butler and Moody has enough healthy size and scoring to extend its season. (official.nba.com)