Warriors Want A Multiyear Commitment From Steve Kerr
Steve Kerr, technically a free agent, has had an excellent 12-year run with the Warriors. Kerr is 28th on the all-time wins list with 604, though he is fifth among coaches with at least 10 years of service in winning percentage (63%). He has led the Warriors to four NBA championships and six Finals appearances. Will he continue coaching?
“I don’t know what’s going to happen next,” Kerr said Friday night after the Warriors’ loss to the Suns. His right arm was on Green’s shoulder, his left on Stephen Curry’s. “But I love you guys to death.”
Kerr is expected to decide in a week or two. If he decides to return, ESPN’s Ramona Shelbourne and Anthony Slater said that Warriors owner Joe Lacob will want a few things.
Do The Warriors Want Kerr To Return?
“More than anything, team sources said, Lacob will want to hear Kerr express a hunger to continue executing the nitty-gritty details of the daily job, not a reluctant acceptance that he should continue coaching purely out of loyalty to Green and Curry and the sentimentality of riding out this era, per ESPN. “That’s why, if Kerr decides he wants to return, there’s a desire from management for him to sign a multiyear deal, team sources said, instead of setting up a last dance farewell tour that would feel more about emotion and nostalgia than wins.”
Kerr has a lot of support among Warriors players, with Curry, Green, and Gui Santos being among the most ardent. However, Green said that he doesn’t believe Kerr will return, and Joe Crowley of the Chicago Sun-Times dropped a nugget late last night.
“Talked to someone very close to Steve Kerr and he said the coach has known for weeks he was done,” Crowley tweeted. “We’ll see. Could be two Hall of Fame coaches walking this week. Crazy league.”
