OAKLAND – Warriors center DeMarcus Cousins participated in a closed scrimmage Wednesday afternoon.

Golden State head coach Steve Kerr said the scrimmage was used to “get to the point where he’s ready to go with his confidence and his conditioning.”

Following practice, Warriors officials brought down a curtain during media availability to block onlookers from seeing the scrimmage.

Cousins, who injured his Achilles in January, has been ramping up his workload in recently. In the last two weeks, Cousins has gone through three full practices with the Warriors G-League team in Santa Cruz, participating in a five-on-five scrimmage that included two six-minute periods. The G-League sessions were a part of a plan to help Cousins — who signed a one-year, $5.3 million deal in July — to get his conditioning up. Last week, Cousins – who still hasn’t pinpointed a return – threw down a thunderous dunk on teammate Kevin Durant to seal a win in a post-practice one-on-one game.

DeMarcus Cousins dunked on Kevin Durant so hard to win their one-on-one matchup that Quinn Cook came over to check on KD. pic.twitter.com/OomMmL8wpF — Logan Murdock (@loganmmurdock) December 21, 2018