MIAMI (AP) — Stephen Curry's road trip is ending a game early, with the Golden State Warriors making the decision to hold the NBA's career 3-point leader out of Wednesday night's game in Miami against the Heat.
Also out for Golden State: Jimmy Butler, in what would have been his second game back in Miami after last season's trade, and Draymond Green, among others.
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Golden State Warriors forward Jimmy Butler III slam dunks the ball during the second quarter of an NBA basketball game against the New Orleans Pelicans, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2025, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)
Golden State Warriors forward Jimmy Butler (10) drives around Orlando Magic guard Jalen Suggs during the second half of an NBA basketball game, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr talks to his players during the second half of an NBA Cup basketball game against the San Antonio Spurs in San Antonio, Friday, Nov. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry (30) dribbles around New Orleans Pelicans guard Jose Alvarado (15) during the second quarter of an NBA basketball game, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2025, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)
Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry reacts to a three-point basket against the New Orleans Pelicans during the third quarter of an NBA basketball game, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2025, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)
Curry is sitting out with right ankle soreness. He tweaked the ankle in a game Friday at San Antonio and did it again Tuesday in a game at Orlando, but was able to keep playing in both of those contests.
The matchup is the finale of a six-game, nine-day trip for the Warriors, who are 3-2 on the going into Wednesday.
Al Horford (left toe injury management) and Jonathan Kuminga (knee tendinitis) are also out for Golden State against Miami, as are Butler (back) and Green (illness). Buddy Hield, who has been dealing with an illness, was listed as questionable before being upgraded to available.
The Warriors are hoping Curry, Butler, Green and Horford can play Friday at home against Portland. All are considered day-to-day.
Warriors coach Steve Kerr has pointed out multiple times that such a long trip is tough enough, yet this one was made tougher because the jammed schedule didn't provide his team an opportunity to practice.
“We all know what the schedule’s been like and I know Coach talked about it ... we try not to think about it too much knowing it is what it is,” Curry said after Tuesday night's loss in Orlando. “You have to find a way to overcome it. We've done a decent job, we let (two) games slide that we feel like we wish we would have had, but we’re all right right now.”
Wednesday's game will be Golden State's 17th in 30 days to start the season and 12th on the road, both of which are league highs. Toronto was playing its 10th road game on Wednesday and some teams have played as few as five away from home; New York was playing its fifth away game of the season Wednesday in Dallas.
Kerr has long been a proponent of shortening the schedule to 72 games and — like many others — has applauded the league for moves it has made in scheduling in recent years, like eliminating the long-dreaded runs of four games in five nights. He knows his 72-game quest will almost certainly never happen, but times like these fuel his argument for more rest or practice days.
“I just think if we’re actually focused on the product, it would be great,” Kerr said. "We literally have not had a single practice on this road trip, not one. We’ve been gone a week, or longer, eight days, not one practice, because it’s just game, game, game. So, not only is there no recovery time, there’s no practice time.
“The league has done a great job of trying to protect players by not overloading the schedule with four (games) in five nights,” Kerr continued. “But now it’s basically we’re playing every other night and the flip side of that is we’re not getting any practice time. And the wear and tear is there anyway, because it’s the accumulation of all those games and the speed and the pace and mileage and everything else.”
Following their flight home after Wednesday's game, Golden State will begin a five-game homestand.
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Golden State Warriors forward Jimmy Butler III slam dunks the ball during the second quarter of an NBA basketball game against the New Orleans Pelicans, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2025, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)
Golden State Warriors forward Jimmy Butler (10) drives around Orlando Magic guard Jalen Suggs during the second half of an NBA basketball game, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr talks to his players during the second half of an NBA Cup basketball game against the San Antonio Spurs in San Antonio, Friday, Nov. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry (30) dribbles around New Orleans Pelicans guard Jose Alvarado (15) during the second quarter of an NBA basketball game, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2025, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)
Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry reacts to a three-point basket against the New Orleans Pelicans during the third quarter of an NBA basketball game, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2025, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is taking up one of the term’s most consequential cases, President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens, and he was in the courtroom on Wednesday for the arguments.
The justices will hear Trump’s appeal of a lower-court ruling from New Hampshire that struck down the citizenship restrictions, one of several courts that have blocked them. They have not taken effect anywhere in the country.
Trump is the first sitting president to attend oral arguments at the nation’s highest court. Crowds watched from the sidewalks as his motorcade drove along Constitution and Independence Avenues, passing the Washington Monument and the National Mall on the way to the court building.
The case frames another test of Trump's assertions of executive power that defy long-standing precedent for a court that has largely ruled in the president's favor — but with some notable exceptions that Trump has responded to with starkly personal criticisms of the justices. A definitive ruling is expected by early summer.
The birthright citizenship order, which Trump signed the first day of his second term, is part of his Republican administration’s broad immigration crackdown.
Birthright citizenship is the first Trump immigration-related policy to reach the court for a final ruling. The justices previously struck down global tariffs Trump had imposed under an emergency powers law that had never been used that way.
Trump reacted furiously to the late February tariffs decision, saying he was ashamed of the justices who ruled against him and calling them unpatriotic.
He issued a preemptive broadside against the court on Sunday on his Truth Social platform. “Birthright Citizenship is not about rich people from China, and the rest of the World, who want their children, and hundreds of thousands more, FOR PAY, to ridiculously become citizens of the United States of America. It is about the BABIES OF SLAVES!,” the president wrote. “Dumb Judges and Justices will not a great Country make!”
Trump's order would upend the long-standing view that the Constitution’s 14th Amendment, ratified in 1868, and federal law since 1940 confer citizenship on everyone born on American soil, with narrow exceptions for the children of foreign diplomats and those born to a foreign occupying force.
The 14th Amendment was intended to ensure that Black people, including former slaves, had citizenship, though the Citizenship Clause is written more broadly. “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside,” it reads.
In a series of decisions, lower courts have struck down the executive order as illegal, or likely so, under the Constitution and federal law. The decisions have invoked the high court's 1898 ruling in Wong Kim Ark, which held that the U.S.-born child of Chinese nationals was a citizen.
The Trump administration argues that the common view of citizenship is wrong, asserting that children of noncitizens are not “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States and therefore are not entitled to citizenship.
The court should use the case to set straight “long-enduring misconceptions about the Constitution’s meaning,” Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote.
No court has accepted that argument, and lawyers for pregnant women whose children would be affected by the order said the Supreme Court should not be the first to do so.
“We have the president of the United States trying to radically reinterpret the definition of American citizenship,” said Cecillia Wang, the American Civil Liberties Union legal director who is facing off against Sauer at the Supreme Court.
More than one-quarter of a million babies born in the U.S. each year would be affected by the executive order, according to research by the Migration Policy Institute and Pennsylvania State University’s Population Research Institute.
While Trump has largely focused on illegal immigration in his rhetoric and actions, the birthright restrictions also would apply to people who are legally in the United States, including students and applicants for green cards, or permanent resident status.
Associated Press writer Darlene Superville contributed to this report.
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Pro and anti-Trump demonstrators rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court, before justices hear oral arguments on whether President Donald Trump can deny citizenship to children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Wednesday, April 1, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
President Donald Trump's motorcade arrives at the U.S. Supreme Court, Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Tom Brenner)
Demonstrators holding opposing views verbally engage ahead of President Donald Trump's arrival at the U.S. Supreme Court, Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Tom Brenner)
President Donald Trump's limo exits the White House en route to the Supreme Court, Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
President Donald Trump's motorcade arrives at the U.S. Supreme Court, Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Tom Brenner)
Pro and anti-Trump demonstrators rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court, before justices hear oral arguments on whether President Donald Trump can deny citizenship to children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Wednesday, April 1, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
People arrive to walk inside the U.S. Supreme Court, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 1, 2026. The Supreme Court justices will hear oral arguments today on whether President Donald Trump can deny citizenship to children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
People arrive to walk inside the U.S. Supreme Court, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 1, 2026. The Supreme Court justices will hear oral arguments today on whether President Donald Trump can deny citizenship to children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
President Donald Trump answers questions from reporters after signing an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House Tuesday, March 31, 2026, in Washington, as Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick listens. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
The U.S. Supreme Court is seen as the moon rises Tuesday, March 31, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
