Golden State Warriors wing Moses Moody will miss the remainder of the 2025-26 campaign after an MRI on Tuesday confirmed a torn patellar tendon in his left knee, league sources told ESPN.
Surgery is scheduled for Thursday, and the anticipated rehabilitation is expected to affect Moody’s availability well into next season, the sources added.
The 23-year-old sustained the noncontact injury late in the Warriors’ 137-131 overtime victory at Dallas on Monday night. While attempting a transition dunk, his left knee buckled on the takeoff, sending him to the floor near the Golden State bench. Play continued briefly before trainers and teammates rushed to his side, and arena staff brought out a stretcher. Moody was wheeled to the locker room, accompanied by director of sports medicine Rick Celebrini, and later flew back to the Bay Area with the team.
Before the injury, Moody had scored 23 points, matching one of his strongest performances of the season after missing 10 games with a right wrist sprain. He is averaging a career-best 11.9 points in his fifth NBA season and is in the first year of a three-year, $39 million contract extension.
The Warriors’ injury list already includes veteran wing Jimmy Butler, who tore an ACL in January, star guard Stephen Curry (out for a 23rd straight game Tuesday with a persistent right knee issue), and starting center Al Horford (calf strain). Golden State has dropped 16 of its last 23 contests and enters Tuesday at 34-38, 10th in the Western Conference.
Veteran forward Draymond Green called the setback “brutal” in a postgame interview, while head coach Steve Kerr praised Moody as “a wonderful guy to coach” who “was brilliant” before the injury.
Source: ESPN
