Overview

• Steve Kerr said Stephen Curry, Draymond Green, Jimmy Butler and Al Horford will play against Portland with minutes increased slightly from the opener.
• Kerr is evaluating the bench pecking order and fit with starters, including frontcourt looks like Horford with Jonathan Kuminga and a Butler–Green–Kuminga trio that he acknowledged raises spacing concerns.
• Chauncey Billups plans to rotate starters across all four preseason games and expand his regular-season rotation to 10 or 11 players.
• Billups will rest veterans within games rather than sit them entirely, with Jrue Holiday not playing the second half versus Golden State.
• With fewer exhibitions, Holiday underscored the need for game reps to build rhythm as Portland assesses roles for younger contributors.