An already-tough 2022-23 NBA season is about to get a whole lot tougher for the defending champion Golden State Warriors.
On Thursday afternoon, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski announced that superstar guard Stephen Curry is going to miss the next couple of weeks due to a left shoulder injury that he suffered in Thursday’s game against the Indiana Pacers.
With Curry out for the near future, the Warriors will likely stumble. In that case, their Pacific Division, Western Conference and NBA Championship odds are all going to dip. But should you buy when it happens?
If the version of the Warriors that we’ve seen for almost two months is the one that ends up taking the floor all season long, then you shouldn’t count on them suddenly turning their season around similar to how the Boston Celtics did last season. So, no, in that case.
If you think some players may be sacrificed in a trade for more win-now pieces, then perhaps you should buy the potential dip.
At the moment, Golden State has the third-best odds to win the division (+600), the best odds to come out of the Western Conference (+325) and the fourth-shortest NBA Championship odds (+800).
