Lj Cryer was downgraded to questionable Tuesday because of an illness, after the Golden State Warriors had already ruled him out for their game against the Sacramento Kings at Chase Center.
Underdog NBA reported the update with a brief note: "LJ Cryer (illness) downgraded to questionable Tuesday." The shift came on the same night Golden State hosted Sacramento in a matchup that carried added weight after the Warriors' 117-116 loss to the Houston Rockets.
For Cryer, the health update landed in the middle of a rookie season that has already shown real value. The undrafted guard out of Houston has averaged 8.2 points and 1.6 rebounds per contest in 17 games while shooting 39.6% from the field and 39.3% from three-point range. He spent the first three seasons of his college career at Baylor, where he helped win the 2021 national championship, before moving to Houston for his final two seasons and then entering the NBA in 2025.
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Golden State entered Tuesday with a 36-42 record through 78 games and sat in the tenth seed in the Western Conference, which makes even a single availability change matter. Cryer had been a productive role player for the Warriors, and his absence only narrows the margin for a team trying to hold position late in the season.
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The larger question now is not whether Cryer has already helped this team. It is whether Golden State can keep getting enough from its depth if an illness keeps pulling one of its steadier rookies in and out of the lineup.
