Gary Payton II is out for the Golden State Warriors for Wednesday’s game at the Houston Rockets on Nov. 11, with left knee inflammation the team’s listed reason. The designation was on the league’s injury report on Tuesday, Nov. 10, and it is his second straight absence: he also missed Monday’s 138-87 win over the New Orleans Pelicans with the same knee.
The sequence over the past few days runs from questionable to out to out, and the stated reason has moved. The Warriors listed Payton II as questionable for the Nov. 7 game against the Orlando Magic with right calf tightness and soreness. By Monday the listing was the left knee, first as questionable and then as out against New Orleans, and the knee is the reason again for Houston. The team has not put a name to anything beyond that.
Brandon Williams is also out for Wednesday with a left hamstring strain, and Will Richard is questionable with a torn ligament in his left thumb, which leaves the Warriors thin behind Stephen Curry in the backcourt for the opener of a five-game road trip. The Warriors have not said more about Payton II, and no return date has been reported by anyone named. The last word before this came in the Warriors listing Payton II questionable against Orlando on Nov. 7.
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