DALLAS (AP) — Jonathan Kuminga's return to the Golden State rotation was prompted by Jimmy Butler's season-ending knee injury.
Now the Warriors wait for word on an injury to their apparently disgruntled player.
Kuminga injured his left ankle and knee when took an awkward step on a drive to the basket in the second quarter of a 123-115 loss to the Dallas Mavericks on Thursday night. He was fouled, made the free throws and stayed in the game briefly before exiting and not returning.
Coach Steve Kerr said Kuminga would have an MRI on Friday as the Warriors continue a four-game road trip that just started. Kuminga walked gingerly in the locker room and declined to speak to reporters, saying he was hurting.
Kuminga hadn't played in a month when he scored 20 points in 21 minutes off the bench in a 145-127 loss to Toronto on Tuesday, Golden State's first game since Butler tore the ACL in his right knee.
Kerr said before the game the team had its first chance to talk about the Butler injury in the hours before playing the Mavericks, and that the club was looking forward to resetting and refocusing.
The coach also said he felt the Warriors, who currently hold one of the spots in the play-in tournament at eighth in the Western Conference, had enough depth the compete without Butler.
While he seemed noncommittal on how much a part of that rotation Kuminga would be with trade talk swirling around the fifth-year player, Kerr said he was looking forward to seeing how the team responded longer term without Butler.
“I think they all understand that we’re good enough to win games,” Kerr said before the game. “That’s the job. This is part of life, it’s part of playing in the NBA. You get some adversity, how do you respond?”
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Golden State Warriors forward Jonathan Kuminga (1) winds up to dunk in the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Dallas Mavericks in Dallas, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
Amazon is slashing about 16,000 jobs in the second round of mass layoffs for the ecommerce company in three months.
The tech giant has said it plans to use generative artificial intelligence to replace corporate workers. It has also been reducing a workforce that swelled during the pandemic.
Beth Galetti, a senior vice president at Amazon, said in a blog post Wednesday that the company has been “reducing layers, increasing ownership, and removing bureaucracy.”
The latest reductions follow a round of job cuts in October, when Amazon said it was laying off 14,000 workers. While some Amazon units completed those “organizational changes” in October, others did not finish until now, Galetti said.
She said U.S.-based staff would be given 90 days to look for a new role internally. Those who are unsuccessful or don't want a new job will be offered severance pay, outplacement services and health insurance benefits, she said.
“While we’re making these changes, we’ll also continue hiring and investing in strategic areas and functions that are critical to our future,” Galetti said.
CEO Andy Jassy, who has aggressively cut costs since succeeding founder Jeff Bezos in 2021, said in June that he anticipated generative AI would reduce Amazon’s corporate workforce in the next few years.
The layoffs are Amazon’s biggest since 2023, when the company cut 27,000 jobs.
Meanwhile, Amazon and other Big Tech and retail companies have cut thousands of jobs to bring spending back in line following the COVID-19 pandemic. Amazon's workforce doubled as millions stayed home and boosted online spending.
Hiring has stagnated in the U.S. and in December, the country added a meager 50,000 jobs, nearly unchanged from a downwardly revised figure of 56,000 in November.
Labor data points to a reluctance by businesses to add workers even as economic growth has picked up. Many companies hired aggressively after the pandemic and no longer need to fill more jobs. Others have held back due to widespread uncertainty caused by President Donald Trump’s shifting tariff policies, elevated inflation, and the spread of artificial intelligence, which could alter or even replace some jobs.
While economists have described the labor situation in the U.S as a “no hire-no fire” environment, some companies have said they are cutting back on jobs, even this week.
On Tuesday, UPS said it planned to cut up to 30,000 operational jobs through attrition and buyouts this year as the package delivery company reduces the number of shipments from what was its largest customer, Amazon.
That followed 34,000 job cuts in October at UPS and the closing of daily operations at 93 leased and owned buildings during the first nine months of last year.
Also on Tuesday, Pinterest said it plans to lay off under 15% of its workforce, as part of broader restructuring that arrives as the image-sharing platform pivots more of its money to artificial intelligence.
Shares of Amazon Inc., based in Seattle, rose slightly before the opening bell Wednesday.
FILE - Shopping carts are positioned outside an Amazon Fresh grocery store in Warrington, Pa., Feb. 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
FILE - People walk out of an Amazon Go store in Seattle, March 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
