GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS MEDIA CONFERENCE

September 28, 2026

Moses Moody

Media Conference

Q. Moses, how would you describe where you are at in terms of your recovery and what you're able to do right now?

MOSES MOODY: Yeah, I would describe it as light on-court activity (laughing).

I'm in a good spot with it all. It's been a fun process, tedious, you know, day by day and everything, but I've enjoyed it.

Q. What's the next step for you in your rehab process?

MOSES MOODY: It's to kind of keep going at the pace that I'm at. Things have been going good, so not getting too ambitious and staying the course.

Q. I know at this point it's not like you have a target date, but are you still confident that you're talking about a midseason type return?

MOSES MOODY: Yeah, I'm confident with the plan. I think everything has been on track for what Rick has estimated and everything. Yeah, I'm in a good spot.

Q. When you say "light on-court activities," what are those activities?

MOSES MOODY: You know, just not too much speed, not too much impact and all that, but just everything that fits in that category.

Q. Can you shoot? Are you taking jumpers and stuff?

MOSES MOODY: Yeah.

Q. What's been the hardest part? Is it trying to stay patient, or is it the actual grind of the work?

MOSES MOODY: Good question. I think the patience is definitely the hardest part. Like, when you are sitting there on the bike and staring at one spot for an hour-long workout or the treadmill or whatever. So it's a mental game, but it's cool too because you normally don't challenge your mental like that to just have to stay and do the same exercise, same workout plan every day for so long and not getting bored with it. Trying to do every rep.

I've enjoyed it.

Q. What are the things that crossed your mind in the first couple of weeks when, you know, it hits you? Because it's a shock when you have an injury like that.

MOSES MOODY: It's funny. My first thought on the ground was, I know this is going to be a good thing at some point. I'm going to say I'm happy this happened. So what's the point of being upset about it right now if I'm going to be happy that it happened?

Then the next step is I got to make it a good thing. So whatever time it allowed me to have, do something with that time. I'd be happy that I had the time to do.

Then on the basketball court, being able to slow down and train my movements and body and a bunch of stuff that might normally get passed up because I got so many other things to work on. I can slow down and go step by step. I feel like I've done that.

Q. Why do you think it was in some ways a good thing?

MOSES MOODY: To have the time and opportunity to do that stuff.

Q. Moses, Mike said you and Jimmy are both going to Hawaii, and I'm just wondering, how will that be for you to be around the team? What will you contribute even if you're not contributing in practices and on court?

MOSES MOODY: Yeah, I mean, I've been here most of the summer, so the guys have been in and out. We were just in San Diego with the team.

I mean, get in where you fit in. We got a lot of people on the team, on the staff around, so you can affect the group in a lot more ways than just being on the court. So it's just being able to be that for the team.

Q. (Off microphone).

MOSES MOODY: It was a good time. We played games, hung out, ate, all that good stuff.

Q. You said when you went down you immediately had that feeling of, this will be a positive thing at some point. When did you gain that kind of perspective in life to be able to just, you know, go down and immediately try to turn something into a positive?

MOSES MOODY: Well, it didn't hurt, first off. I guess you don't got a lot of nerves in that area. Another one that I think about is, how do you actually feel versus how you're supposed to feel? And I'm looking at it, and I'm, like, I should probably be in pain and screaming and all that right now, but actually it doesn't hurt. Now I'm just waiting until I get up or whatever is next.

That was the feeling for me. So as I sit there calmly and think, that was the first thought that came to my head. Looking back on it, I think it's pretty cool that that's how that went.

Q. Moses, Stephan Curry has signed an extension for a couple more years, and what does it mean to you to see him committed to ending his career with the Warriors and also taking less money to try to chase another championship with all of you guys?

MOSES MOODY: It's cool to see somebody that's done as much as he's done, that wants to do as much as he wants to do, but just watching somebody be able to stay patient and ambitious at the same time. It's a lot of stuff like that with him, just being able to be, like, free and contained. That's everything.

Just having the discipline and focus and commitment to stay with an organization for as long as he has is cool to see.

Q. On Steph, how is it to have him at your summer camp in Arkansas this summer?

MOSES MOODY: Yeah, it meant everything. I don't got the words to say. Just the impact that he had on the community. You think about people in Little Rock -- think about me growing up. You don't have access to those type of people. You don't see those type of people except on the TV screen. So all of the stuff -- you don't believe -- you don't really feel like somebody real unless you can talk to them, ask them questions. Just to see them in person even more than just talk to them. That was the feeling for me at 19 when I got to the NBA and I'm playing against all of these people that I have only seen.

That doesn't only mean basketball. It's a lot of people, successful people, out here in the world doing all type of different things, but if people don't know, are not able to be around them, you're not able to be affected by them.

Him coming back home and giving everybody the opportunity to be around him, be inspired by him, and take whatever they want and whatever they need, it was special.

Q. Real quickly, you mentioned some of the mental hurdles about the rehab. What are some of the things off the court that you've bin able to do to take your mind off the basketball part?

MOSES MOODY: I've been on the guitar. That started before the injury. I was trying to learn another language early on, but it hadn't been going so well, so I kind of slowed down on that.

Then on the business side, getting into tech, I've been in that for a while now, but now I got time to do a lot more meetings, go see cool companies, and play with hardware and software. I've enjoyed it.

Q. What language?

MOSES MOODY: It was Spanish. Still working on it. I haven't gave up.

Q. Duolingo?

MOSES MOODY: Pimsleur.

Q. Is there a song that you go to on guitar?

MOSES MOODY: So I like blues music, and I recently learned "Baby, Please Don't Go."

Q. (Off microphone).

MOSES MOODY: I don't got my guitar with me. I would, though.

Q. Obviously in the grand scheme of lower body injuries, torn patella tendon is not the most common thing you see across the league. Are there any guys or case studies that you've looked back on or tried to learn more about? What have you kind of learned through this process about what it takes to get back and sort of the range of outcomes there?

MOSES MOODY: Yeah, I talked to a couple different people. I know it's so many different ways you can do it too, so it's hard to really compare, because if it was somebody torn in the middle, it's different than if it was torn right from the bone.

That's kind of what's funny. I think about it, because I feel like I'm a pretty secure person normally, but then this is probably the most insecure I ever felt when it comes because whenever somebody say, like, I got a patella tendon injury, everything you say, I'm putting extra weight, I'm curious, I want to learn about it, emotions attached to it some.

That's just an interesting observation I had, just feeling insecure about something. You follow the stories.

Then that's funny too, because now when you have an injury like that, then everybody that's had it, will always tell you, oh, I had it too, and that's just kind of a connection and something that you might have known somebody for a long time, but never known about the injury and stuff, so...

Q. How do you balance kind of that insecurity around it or maybe I don't know much about it, I want to make sure it's right versus where you are at as a team and knowing that they kind of need you this year down the stretch? Is there a little bit of a back and forth or a balance for you?

MOSES MOODY: Yeah, and I would say -- I would say turning it more into a curiosity, because that's what it was in the beginning. When I say that, it's because I have an injury that I know nothing about. So that makes you curious and want to learn more.

I feel like that phase is even kind of gone because I've learned so much about it now and just the way that I feel, the feedback I'm getting and everything, I'm fully confident that everything is going and everything will be all right.

Q. When you talk about your rehab process and from the time the injury to where you are now, who has been really big in your support, big in your corner that you lean on during the ups or the downs, all that?

MOSES MOODY: Yeah, I had a cool conversation with somebody early on as I was trying to figure out how I want to spend my time, extra time, that I have, and something they said was I got more time to talk to my family because I'm so big on family, and I got a huge family, cousins, aunts, grandmas, all of that.

So making a point to call multiple people every day, and that's been able to help me and help them in more ways than I could have imagined or thought of, but I'm usually so busy that I kind of don't have the time to do it, which I can always make time. The time was made, so I got it now, and I've been doing it.

Q. You said you didn't know anything about the injury when it happened. What's the most surprising or crazy, interesting thing that you learned about the injury and all that?

MOSES MOODY: I mean, just how solid the repair can be. Just knowing coming back that, you know, once you hurt something, a lot of times it gets stronger than the other one. So that's something I didn't know before, but that's obviously cool to hear too. It makes me more confident coming back.