OAKLAND –- One game on the sideline, and a Warriors loss at that, was enough to convince Draymond Green he feels good enough to return to action.
The 25-year-old power forward will be in the starting lineup Thursday night when the Warriors face the Los Angeles Lakers at Oracle Arena.
“He’s going to play,” interim coach Luke Walton said in his pregame news conference. “He said he feels great and wants to get out there, so we put him back in the starting lineup.”
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Coping with a sore right ankle and other various other ailments in both legs, Green sat out Wednesday night in Denver, where the Warriors took a 112-110 loss to the Nuggets.