Warriors start Jonathan Kuminga over Draymond Green in loss - ESPN

SAN FRANCISCO — The slumping Golden State Warriors made a lineup change by starting Jonathan Kuminga and bringing Draymond Green off the bench against the Minnesota Timberwolves on Friday night.

And head coach Steve Kerr says he wants to give this starting lineup change «a look» and see how it goes. In the first game with this change, the Warriors were routed, 107-90, by Minnesota at the Chase Center.

Green said he is willing to come off the bench for however long it lasts to help the Warriors win and Kuminga grow.

«Of course, I'm OK with it,» Green said on Friday night. «I have been one of JK's biggest fans since he's been here. And so if he has an opportunity to start, you can't be hypocritical and [if] they're like we want him to start, but it'll be [up to] you, you can't be like, ah, it's not for me, that don't work. I want to see him do well.

»So if his opportunity goes through me, then it is what it is. He earned the opportunity. He played extremely well [on Thursday]. You want to give that another look or two or three or four or however long. If it works, then you continue with it."

After starting off 12-3, the Warriors have lost six of seven games. Kuminga scored 13 points in 29 minutes but it was a dreadful offensive night for the Warriors, who were held to 39% shooting overall and just 11-for-39 shooting from the arc by Minnesota's defense.

On Thursday, the Warriors snapped a five-game losing streak with a 99-93 win over the Houston Rockets. Kuminga flashed his potential, scoring a career-high 33 points, including 14 in the fourth quarter to lift the Warriors to victory despite Green and Steph Curry sitting out with injuries.

«I don't necessarily look at it as like this demotion,» said Green, a 13-year veteran.