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- By Connor Letourneau Connor Letourneau is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer.

Young doubtful for Sunday’s exhibition.

SHANGHAI — Guard Nick Young is doubtful for Sunday’s exhibition against Minnesota with a right hip contusion, the Warriors said Friday.

Late in Thursday’s exhibition loss to the Timberwolv­es, Young took a hard spill and walked gingerly to the locker room. Young, 32, finished the game with seven points on 3-for-8 shooting (1-for-5 from three-point range) in 16 minutes.

The hope is that Young will be fully healed by Golden State’s Oct. 13 exhibition against the Kings. Though Young played in a system similar to the Warriors’ last season under Steve Kerr protege Luke Walton in Los Angeles, he would benefit from as much playing time in the preseason as possible.

Young arrived at training camp a bit overweight and is still working to get into game shape. But this much is apparent: If he is at his best, Young should offer the Warriors another scorer off the bench.

He has averaged 12 points on 41.9 percent shooting from the field and 37.6 percent from beyond the arc over a 10-year career that has spanned stops with the Wizards, Clippers, 76ers and Lakers. Last season he enjoyed a bit of a career renaissanc­e under Walton, averaging 13.2 points per game, shooting 40.4 percent from three-point range, posting the lowest turnover rate of his career and starting all 60 games he played.

Long averse to defense, Young showed a renewed commitment to trying to lock down his man. In 16 of the Lakers’ final 17 games, with a playoff berth out of reach, Young didn’t complain while Walton gave his minutes to younger players.

Young signed a one-year, $5.2 million contract with the Warriors in July. All-Star bid: The Warriors have submitted a bid to host the NBA All-Star Game, a source has confirmed to The Chronicle.

ESPN was the first to report the news.

Though the bid submission year is unclear, the earliest it would be is reportedly 2021. Golden State is scheduled to open its new arena, Chase Center, in time for the 2019-20 season.

Chase Center, which began constructi­on in January, will be an 18,000-seat, state-of-theart arena in San Francisco’s Mission Bay neighborho­od. Per the ESPN report, the new facility is expected to give the Warriors a great shot at bringing All-Star Weekend to the Bay Area for the third time and the first since 2000.

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