Golden State Warriors Lose Moody To Knee Injury

The 2025-26 season has been unkind to the Golden State Warriors, specifically when it comes to health. With Steph Curry, Jimmy Butler, Al Horford, and Seth Curry already on the sidelines, bad luck struck the team again on Monday night.  There are basketball injuries, and then there are the ones that make an entire arena go quiet. Monday night in Dallas was the latter.

Moses Moody had just stolen the ball and had a wide-open breakaway dunk ahead of him with about a minute left in overtime, with the Warriors holding a five-point lead. But right as he planted to launch himself towards the hoop, everything came crashing down. Moody crumpled to the ground, reaching down for his left knee, lying in a heap under the rim.  Rather than a highlight reel moment to seal a victory, Moody’s innocent breakaway turned into a heartbreaking moment. 

In Moody's first game back after missing ten straight games with a wrist injury, fans could tell he was genuinely excited to be back on the court. At a point in the season in which numerous teams and players are in full tank mode, Moody wanted to be on the court. 

Playing 34 minutes in his return, Moody led the Warriors with 23 points and added three rebounds, three assists, and three steals, providing a presence on both ends of the court before the freak accident.  The 23-year-old had been averaging career highs of 11.9 points and 3.3 rebounds per game this season. 

The timing couldn't be worse for Golden State. The Warriors have been playing without their two best players for the past two months: Butler suffered a torn right ACL on January 19, and Curry has been sidelined since January 30 with patellofemoral pain syndrome in his right knee.  Seth Curry and Horford have been out since March 15 with a groin strain and a calf strain, respectively, limiting the Warriors' already short bench. For a team trying to climb the Western Conference standings, that production is irreplaceable.

Golden State is essentially locked into the play-in tournament, holding a nine-game lead over the eleventh-seeded New Orleans Pelicans while trying to inch towards the No. 8 seed LA Clippers, who sit just two games away, with the Warriors hoping for two shots at the playoffs.  Without Curry, Butler, and now Moody, who has been officially diagnosed with a torn patellar tendon (an injury that could sideline him for up to a year), those chances just got a whole lot slimmer.