The Golden State Warriors’ season is officially over. Now begins an offseason in which the most successful NBA team of the past decade has some hard questions to answer.
Stephen Curry is 38 years old. Draymond Green is 36 years old. Steve Kerr’s contract just expired. The Warriors could look very different once the 2026-27 campaign begins, and Kerr looked well aware of that as the clock ticked down on their season-ending loss to the Phoenix Suns in the NBA play-in tournament.
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After Green fouled out of the game, Kerr simultaneously embraced him and Curry and shared some words with two players he’s been coaching since 2014.
Prime Video’s mics caught some of those words, which were:
“I don’t what’s going to happen next, but I love you guys to death. Thank you. Appreciate you.”
Those words had a visible impact on Prime’s Dirk Nowitzki, who got choked up while saying, “The bond you form over all these years, they know you as a family … It was a cool moment.”
It was a tender moment between one of the most successful triumvirates in NBA history. Green then immediately followed that moment by getting into it with Suns star Devin Booker from the bench and earning a double ejection from official Scott Foster.
Stephen Curry, Draymond Green and Steve Kerr are all likely Hall of Famers for what they did the Warriors.
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Curry likely isn’t going anywhere, but Green has a player option for next year and is seen as a trade candidate if he exercises it. Meanwhile, Kerr openly acknowledged the possibility the Warriors opt to make a change at head coach:
“I’ll take a week or two and then eventually sit down and talk with [Warriors owner Joe Lacob and general manager Mike Dunleavy]. We’ve always had a great partnership and collaboration and just see where they are and I’ll tell them where I am. We’ll talk about what’s next for the Warriors, what the plan is and we’ll come to a collaborative decision on what’s next. I don’t know what’s going to happen.
“I still love coaching, but I get it. These jobs all have an expiration date. There’s a run that happens and sometimes it’s time for new blood and new ideas and all that. If that’s the case, then I will be nothing but grateful for the most amazing opportunity any person could have to coach in front of our fans in the Bay, to coach Steph Curry, to coach Dray, the whole group. It may still go on, it may not. I don’t know at this point.”
Green also discussed the possibility of an exit, saying “I hope I’ve done enough to still be here.”
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Since the Warriors hired Kerr in 2014, they have gone 708-401 in the regular season and playoffs combined, reaching the playoffs eight times, reaching the NBA Finals six times and winning the NBA title four times.
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