PORTLAND, Ore. -- Stephen Curry aggravated his right thumb injury but was able to play through it Friday and said he will be ready for Sunday's crucial regular-season finale against the LA Clippers.

Curry banged the thumb on his shooting hand and left with 1:59 remaining in the first quarter of the Golden State Warriors' 103-86 win over the Trail Blazers. Curry underwent an X-ray on the thumb, and the results were negative, according to the team. He returned in the second and third quarters before sitting out the fourth with the Warriors up by as much as 27.

Curry dealt with a painful thumb injury in January. He said this latest throbbing thumb issue will not hold him back from facing the Clippers at Chase Center.

"From what I know, just an aggravation," Curry said of the latest injury. "The same thing [as the earlier thumb injury], but hopefully it wasn't anything serious."

He added: "I just know it hurts right now, but I'll be all right."

Curry finished with 14 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists in 27 minutes. He shot 6-for-14 overall and said the injury affected his shooting "a little bit" after he had the thumb taped up.

"Because it was freshly ringing, new pain," Curry said. "But I don't think it'll last too long."

The Warriors will need their franchise star feeling as good as possible Sunday. The winner will secure a spot in the top six in the Western Conference and a playoff series.

"I don't want to be too dramatic," Curry said when asked what the finale will be like. "It should be like a Game 7 kind of vibe. You win and you control your destiny on a guaranteed playoffs series. If you lose, you roll the dice."

Golden State can fall no lower than seventh and a play-in spot with a loss. The Clippers can finish as high as fourth or as low as seventh.

The Warriors (48-33) and Clippers (49-32) last met Dec. 27. Kawhi Leonard hadn't made his season debut after rehabbing his injured knee. And the Warriors did not have Jimmy Butler III, who came in a trade shortly before the February deadline. The Clippers are 3-0 this season against the Warriors.

"[It will be] like a playoff game," Warriors forward Draymond Green said. "Super intense. Two teams fighting for their playoff lives. Expected to be a very physical, high-intelligent, high-level basketball game."

Avoiding the play-in, in which the Warriors are 0-3 all time, would give Golden State a week off to rest and prepare.

Curry said he is ready to play Sunday. But a week off could do wonders for his thumb.

"I'm feeling great," Curry said of the thumb after the game. "Ready to play Game 82 on Sunday. Excited about it."

The Boston Celtics are filling their final roster spot to end the season, converting G League MVP JD Davison to a standard two-year NBA contract, his agent Corey Marcum told ESPN on Saturday.

Davison, who has played 34 career NBA games, averaged 25.1 points, 7.6 assists and 5.6 rebounds for G League Maine this season.

The 22-year-old guard has appeared in games over the past three seasons for the Celtics since they drafted him in the second round in 2022. He has averaged 1.7 points per game in the NBA.

The Celtics (60-21) hold the No. 2 seed in the Eastern Conference and are awaiting the winner of the first play-in game between the Orlando Magic and Atlanta Hawks.

Celtics All-Star forward Jaylen Brown received pain management injections in his troublesome right knee this week in an effort to promote healing before Boston begins its title defense, league sources told ESPN.

Brown is expected to be ready for the start of the Celtics' first-round playoff series either April 19 or 20, sources said.

Last year's Finals MVP has been dealing with a bone bruise in his knee for some time, but it appeared to be causing him more pain recently. He didn't play much in the second half or overtime of the Celtics' win over the New York Knicks on Tuesday. He then sat out Thursday's loss to the Orlando Magic, ending any chance of him playing in the 65 games required to be eligible for postseason awards.

After the overtime win against the Knicks, Celtics center Kristaps Porzingis urged Brown to rest his injury to be healthier for the playoffs.

"He's a tough dude," Porzingis said. "He always preaches his warrior mindset. He lives by it. But to what extent do we need that right now? Maybe he needs to take care of it and make sure he's going to be ready for the most important moment. I think we need to encourage him to make sure he does everything he needs to prepare to get it healthy and to prepare for what's going to come."

In 63 games, Brown is averaging 22.2 points, his lowest since the 2019-20 season, to go with 5.8 rebounds and a career-high 4.5 assists.

The Minnesota Timberwolves will have star Anthony Edwards for their final game of the regular season after all.

The NBA on Saturday rescinded the technical foul Edwards was issued at 6:29 of the second quarter in Minnesota's 117-91 win over the Brooklyn Nets on Friday night. The technical was his NBA-high 18th of the season and would have resulted in an automatic suspension for the Wolves' last game against the Utah Jazz on Sunday.

NBA rules dictate a one-game suspension for any player who reaches 16 technical fouls during the regular season. Each two additional technicals trigger another suspension.

The league has the right to review and rescind a technical foul, which the Wolves were hoping for considering they lost at Utah on Feb. 28, the first time Edwards was suspended.

The Wolves (48-33) need a win in the finale to improve their playoff seeding. They can still finish as high as fourth in the crowd of Western Conference contenders, which would come with home-court advantage for the first round of the playoffs. They also can drop as low as eighth, which would require them to win a play-in game to get a spot in the bracket.

Edwards received the technical Friday for using profanity to complain about a call. He was whistled for a personal foul while closely guarding Brooklyn's Keon Johnson on the wing midway through the second quarter. After spreading his arms out in disbelief with a furrowed glance at official Ray Acosta, Edwards quickly got the technical, too.

Crew chief Bill Kennedy told a pool reporter after the game that the technical was assessed for profanity used toward Acosta, which Edwards confirmed.

"I tried to play good defense. They called a foul," Edwards said, adding he then asked what the foul was while using profanity. "And he gave me a tech. I hope they look at it and rescind it, so I can play in a couple days."

Edwards, separately from the technicals, has been fined six times for a total of $320,000 for various behaviors.

"I'm praying they rescind it," he said. "I don't feel like it should've been a tech, but me and Ray got a good relationship. We talked it out after the fact. But I don't think I deserved a tech for just that little gesture."

The Timberwolves agreed.

"I did not really get a good or clear explanation of why the technical occurred. It didn't seem like there was anything egregious or overly demonstrative," coach Chris Finch said.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

With 81 games in the books for every NBA team, there's still plenty to play for heading into Sunday, the final day of regular-season action.

Even after 1,215 games have been played, there are still several positions in both the playoff and lottery standings that remain up for grabs as all 30 teams take the floor for their 82nd and final game of the season.

For some teams, it'll mark the beginning of the offseason and the wait to see where the pingpong balls will land in the NBA draft lottery on May 12. For others, it's just the beginning of what they hope will be a two-month-long odyssey through the playoffs that will end with one team raising the Larry O'Brien Trophy.

With all of that in mind, here's what's at stake as the regular season comes to a close, beginning in the wide-open West:

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Draft lottery

Western Conference

Who's locked in?

1. Oklahoma City Thunder

The Thunder have long been locked into the top spot not just in the conference, but in the NBA, and they are guaranteed home-court advantage throughout the playoffs. With a victory Sunday in New Orleans, they would become the seventh team in NBA history to win at least 68 games in a season.

2. Houston Rockets

Like OKC, the Rockets have been settled into the second spot for some time now, capping off one of the most impressive and surprising campaigns in the NBA by locking in home-court advantage across the opening two rounds. Houston will have a major part to play in how the rest of things shake out, however (more on this below).

3. Los Angeles Lakers

With Friday's win over Houston, the Lakers are locked into the third seed. But the Lakers, like the Thunder and Rockets ahead of them, are waiting for the chaos to shake out in the bottom of the West bracket.

What's left to be decided

In short: everything else!

4. Denver Nuggets

Denver controls its destiny. If the Nuggets beat the Rockets -- who are locked into the No. 2 seed -- a chaotic week for the franchise will end with securing home-court advantage in the first round.

5. LA Clippers

It's a similar path for the Clippers, who won in Sacramento on Friday to put themselves on the verge of locking in a playoff spot. Unlike Denver, however, the Clippers have a much tougher test ahead: a game in San Francisco against the Warriors.

A win, coupled with a Denver loss, means the Clippers would be fourth. A win and a Denver win means the Clippers would face the Nuggets in the first round. A loss would likely push the Clippers into the play-in.

6. Minnesota Timberwolves

The Timberwolves would have been in position for home-court advantage had they not given up a 24-point second-half lead to the Bucks earlier this week. Still, if Minnesota can beat the Utah Jazz, they will guarantee a top-six spot in the West. (And, thanks to season sweeps over the Nuggets and Clippers, Minnesota could grab the fourth seed if both teams in front of them lose Sunday.)

Now, here's where things get complicated, as the late slate of games will decide who stays out of the West play-in.

7. Golden State Warriors

The Warriors, like the Wolves, have their own game to kick themselves over heading into the final day, after Harrison Barnes hit a game-winning 3-pointer to beat his former team Wednesday night. Still, after beating Portland on Friday, Golden State enters Sunday needing a win to guarantee a top-six spot in the West.

If the Warriors and Wolves win, the Wolves would finish fifth, the Warriors sixth and the Clippers seventh, by virtue of head-to-head record between the three teams.

Golden State, thanks to the head-to-head tiebreaker over Memphis, can't finish lower than seventh, securing at least the chance to host the first play-in game.

8. Memphis Grizzlies

The Grizzlies had a chance to create an even bigger standings mess by defeating the Nuggets on Friday night. That loss, however, means the Grizzlies -- who host Dallas -- need help to get out of the eighth spot.

Now Memphis cannot escape the play-in. But the Grizzlies can move into seventh if Minnesota loses to the cellar-dwelling Jazz. Memphis will either travel to Golden State or host Minnesota, as the Wolves would finish eighth in that potential three-way tie.

9. Sacramento Kings, 10. Dallas Mavericks

Let's get to the (relatively) simple equation for the West's final two postseason spots.

The Kings and Mavericks enter Sunday tied in the standings after the Kings lost to the LA Clippers and the Mavericks beat the Toronto Raptors on Friday night.

The Kings, however, control their destiny. By sweeping the Mavericks in the regular season, Sacramento needs a win over Phoenix -- or a Dallas loss -- to secure a home game for the 9-10 play-in matchup.

Eastern Conference

What's locked in:

Everything! Remarkably, Friday's results locked in all 10 spots in the East postseason:

1. Cleveland Cavaliers
2. Boston Celtics
3. New York Knicks
4. Indiana Pacers
5. Milwaukee Bucks
6. Detroit Pistons
7. Orlando Magic
8. Atlanta Hawks
9. Chicago Bulls
10. Miami Heat

Draft lottery standings

1/2. Utah Jazz and Washington Wizards

After the Utah Jazz and Washington Wizards both lost Friday, they enter Sunday's action tied for the league's worst record at 17-64. If the two teams finish tied -- Utah plays in Minnesota, while Washington plays in Miami -- a coin flip will determine which team will slot in higher if neither moves up in the draft (the top three teams in the lottery all have the same odds, so that won't change either way).

3. Charlotte Hornets

4. New Orleans Pelicans

5. Philadelphia 76ers

6. Brooklyn Nets

7. Toronto Raptors

8. San Antonio Spurs

The next six teams behind the Jazz and Wizards are all locked into position. The team impacted the most by that is Philadelphia, which locked itself officially into the fifth spot despite its loss to Atlanta on Friday. Philadelphia will now keep its top-six protected first-round pick unless multiple teams behind the 76ers jump them in next month's draft lottery. If that happens, and the pick lands at No. 7 or lower, it will go to the Oklahoma City Thunder as part of the Al Horford-Danny Green trade five years ago.

9/10. Portland Trail Blazers and Phoenix Suns

On the final day of the regular season, the Blazers are playing the Lakers, who are locked into the No. 3 seed, and the Suns are playing the Kings, who are fighting for playoff positioning. If both teams lose, a coin flip will determine which of them will pick ahead of the other in the lottery if neither moves up, though the pingpong balls will be evenly split between them.

Phoenix, however, doesn't control its draft pick. The Houston Rockets acquired it from the Brooklyn Nets last offseason in a deal that gave Brooklyn back control of its 2025 and 2026 picks. Houston could wind up with a better pick than Brooklyn in this year's draft with some moderate lottery luck.

11. Miami Heat

The Heat are in an interesting position: nothing to play for in the standings as far as moving out of 10th, giving them every reason to lose to Washington and ensure they stay in the 11th lottery spot. Washington, however, is also incentivized to lock in its own draft positioning.

12. Chicago Bulls

13. Atlanta Hawks

14. Dallas Mavericks

15. Sacramento Kings

The Kings owe the Hawks their pick if it lands outside the top 12. But if the Kings beat the Suns and lock themselves into the ninth spot in the play-in standings, losses by the Hawks and Mavericks would mean Sacramento will pick no higher than 13th if the Kings don't advance out of the play-in.

A loss by the Kings would put them in position to keep their pick -- either outright, if Atlanta or Dallas wins, or via coin flip if they lose. It also could become a four-way tie if the Bulls win and the Hawks, Mavericks and Kings all lose. That scenario would give Sacramento up to three chances to move up via coin flip and keep its pick.

16. Orlando Magic

The Los Angeles Angels got the kind of news no team wants to hear, especially this early in the season.

The Angels suffered a major loss Friday when they placed hard-throwing right-hander Ben Joyce on the 15-day injured list with inflammation in his throwing shoulder.

The move is retroactive to Wednesday, when Joyce experienced some decreased velocity on his fastball during his appearance against the Tampa Bay Rays.

"We don't have any idea the length, but we're certainly going to back off him and let him rest and we'll know more as we continue to see where it goes," Angels manager Ron Washington said.

"It's a big blow to lose him," Washington said of Joyce, who is 1-0 with a 6.23 ERA in five appearances this season.

The Angels called up right-handed pitcher Michael Darrell-Hicks from Triple-A Salt Lake to fill Joyce's roster spot.

MIAMI -- The Washington Nationals placed shortstop CJ Abrams on the 10-day injured list on Saturday because of a right hip flexor strain.

Abrams first experienced discomfort during the Nationals' home series against Arizona last week and it then flared up again on Friday, when Washington opened a road series in Miami. He was removed after the third inning and underwent an imaging test Saturday that confirmed the strain.

"I told him today to get this thing to calm down and get it right so it doesn't become a bigger issue," Nationals manager Dave Martinez said before Saturday's game. "In a week and a half, hopefully he'll be ready to go."

Abrams, 24, has four homers through his first 11 games this season.

"CJ wants to play every day," Martinez said. "He wasn't happy about it. But this was the second stint that it was bothering him. We're going to try to get him all healed up so it's something that he won't have to worry about for the rest of the year."

The Nationals recalled infielder Nasim Nunez from Triple-A Rochester in the corresponding move. Nunez was a Rule 5 selection last season, Nunez and appeared in 51 games for Washington. The 34-year-old, who was with the team in Spring Training in West Palm Beach, Florida last month, joins the active roster for the first time this year. In 10 games at Rochester, he hit .192 with three RBIs and five stolen bases.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

CHICAGO -- The White Sox placed outfielder Austin Slater on the 10-day injured list before Saturday's game against the Red Sox with a right meniscus tear and recalled outfielder Greg Jones from Triple-A Charlotte.

The move is retroactive to Friday, when Slater was set to start against the Red Sox but was scratched just before the first pitch.

White Sox manager Will Venable said Slater first sensed the knee injury warming up and wasn't sure if Slater would need surgery.

The White Sox signed the 32-year-old Slater in November. He is batting .250 with two doubles, one home run and one RBI in eight games.

Chicago was already depleted by injuries. Andrew Benintendi (left adductor), Mike Tauchman (right hamstring), Josh Rojas (fractured toe), Korey Lee (left ankle) and Fraser Ellard (right hamstring) also are on the IL.

Jones, 27, was batting .129 nine games with Charlotte.

NEW YORK -- The New York Yankees placed Marcus Stroman on the 15-day injured list with left knee inflammation Saturday, one day after he gave up five runs and got two outs in a rainy 9-1 loss to the San Francisco Giants.

Stroman went to a hospital for tests on his left knee after throwing 46 pitches in the rain Friday. Manager Aaron Boone said Stroman said his knee was bothering him, and the Yankees announced the move about an hour before Saturday's scheduled first pitch.

Stroman is 0-1 with an 11.57 ERA in three starts after allowing a three-run homer to Jung Hoo Lee and a two-run double to LaMonte Wade Jr. in his shortest career start that was not interrupted by rain, though Boone said he was not sure whether the conditions caused the injury.

"I don't know, tough to say," Boone said before Saturday's game. "We haven't been in ideal conditions most of the start of the season here, and that affects everyone a little bit different.

"Stro has also been doing this a long time and pitched in these situations a lot before, so I'm sure that all plays a role."

The Yankees recalled pitcher Allan Winans from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes Barre to replace Stroman on the roster.

Winans had a 5.02 ERA in five spring training appearances and pitched 2 innings in his lone appearance with Triple-A.

Winans made his major league debut with the Atlanta Braves in 2023 and was 1-4 with a 7.20 ERA in eight starts over the previous two seasons.

The Yankees claimed him off waivers from the Braves on Jan. 23, designated him for assignment on Feb. 5 and invited him to spring training as a non-roster invitee two days later.

Entering Saturday, New York had lost four of five following a 6-2 start and its starting rotation had a 5.46 ERA, worst among the 30 teams. The Yankees went on to beat the Giants 8-4 as Will Warren gave up two hits and two runs while recording six strikeouts in a five-inning start.

Clarke Schmidt is scheduled to rejoin the Yankees on Tuesday or Wednesday after recovering from right rotator cuff tendinitis that has sidelined him since spring training.

Boone did not address who would be dropped from the rotation, though Stroman's injury creates an easier decision.

"I'm excited to get him back," Boone said. "He's turned into a really good pitcher in the league. So feel like he's in a really good spot, too."

Stroman turns 34 on May 1 and is in the second season of a two-year contract guaranteeing $37 million. The right-hander's deal includes a $16 million conditional player option for 2026 that could be exercised if he pitches in at least 140 innings this year.

He skipped the Yankees' first two spring training workouts at a time when he didn't have a projected rotation role behind Gerrit Cole, Max Fried, Carlos Rodon, Luis Gil and Schmidt. He arrived on Valentine's Day, eight days ahead of the mandatory reporting date, and injuries to Cole, Gil and Schmidt created a need for him.

A two-time All-Star, Stroman hasn't pitched through the fifth inning this season and has a 2.04 WHIP.

Last season, Stroman was 10-9 with a 4.31 ERA in 30 games (29 starts) when he threw 154 innings, his most since 2021 with the New York Mets. Stroman struggled in the second half and did not appear in the postseason when the Yankees made their first World Series appearance since 2009.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.