Warriors' Moses Moody leaves game on stretcher after suffering gruesome injury on dunk attempt

Golden State Warriors defender Moses Moody near Monday night’s crippled connected a stretcher aft helium suffered a gruesome limb wounded against the Dallas Mavericks.

Moody was each unsocial connected his mode to an casual dunk successful overtime aft stealing the shot from Mavericks rookie Cooper Flagg. He gathered himself and went up for the slam but his genu buckled. He landed hard connected the floor.

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Golden State Warriors defender Moses Moody (4) injures his limb portion trying to people successful beforehand of Dallas Mavericks guardant Cooper Flagg (32) during overtime astatine American Airlines Center connected March 23, 2026. (Kevin Jairaj/Imagn Images)

Warriors caput manager Steve Kerr and players from some teams were near successful disbelief.

Moody was down for respective minutes arsenic aesculapian unit attended to him. Kerr said aft the crippled that Moody was getting X-rays astatine the American Airlines Center.

"Just saw his limb buckle. Saw him spell down successful a heap, successful pain," Kerr told reporters. "We don’t cognize what it is, but it definite looked bad. Just hoping for the best. What the best-case script is, that’s what we’re each hoping for. But it looked bad."

Moody was playing successful his archetypal crippled since helium sprained his close wrist. He led the Warriors with 23 points and 3 steals earlier the freak accident.

Golden State Warriors defender Moses Moody (4) grabs his limb astatine American Airlines Center connected March 23, 2026. (Kevin Jairaj/Imagn Images)

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"Mo is specified a large quality being, large teammate, fantastic feline to coach," Kerr said. "Puts successful the enactment each day. And was brilliant, by the way. Played truthful good defensively, changed the crippled for america with his shot unit and knocked down large shots. So large to yet person him back. And past for that to happen, you’re conscionable praying that it’s not excessively serious, but it definite looked serious."

Warriors defender Brandin Podziemski said the wounded reminded him of erstwhile Jimmy Butler tore his ACL against the Miami Heat backmost successful January.

"You conscionable hatred to spot it, particularly to the bully radical successful life," Podziemski said.

Golden State Warriors defender Moses Moody (4) waves to fans portion leaving the tribunal connected a stretcher during overtime against the Dallas Mavericks astatine American Airlines Center connected March 23, 2026. (Kevin Jairaj/Imagn Images)

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The Warriors won the crippled 137-131. Golden State is apt headed for the play-in tourney successful hopes of being 1 of the 8 teams successful the Western Conference vying for an NBA title.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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