{"id":64883,"date":"2024-02-24T00:17:09","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T05:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/?p=64883"},"modified":"2024-02-24T00:19:18","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T05:19:18","slug":"nba-news-warriors-steve-kerr-agree-on-two-year-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/02\/24\/nba-news-warriors-steve-kerr-agree-on-two-year-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA News: Warriors, Steve Kerr Agree on Two-Year Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Per Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN, the Golden State Warriors and head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/k\/kerrst01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-02-24_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Steve Kerr<\/a> have agreed on a two-year, $35 million contract extension. This extension will keep Kerr with the Warriors through the 2025-26 season:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr, an architect of four franchise championships, has agreed on a two-year, $35 million contract extension that\u2019ll make him the highest-paid coach in NBA history, agents Rick Smith and Dan Eveloff of Priority Sports told ESPN on Friday. Kerr\u2019s deal was set to expire at the end of the season, and his $17.5 million a season extension takes him through the 2025-26 season.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Warriors reporter Anthony Slater of The Athletic noted that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anthonyVslater\/status\/1761226281117794304\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kerr&#8217;s extension coincides<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/c\/curryst01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-02-24_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stephen Curry<\/a>&#8216;s contract. Curry&#8217;s contract will also run through the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n<p>Kerr has been the Warriors&#8217; head coach since 2014. In his time, Golden State has made six NBA Finals appearances, winning four championships total. Furthermore, the team&#8217;s 73-9 record during the 2015-16 NBA season remains the best regular season record in league history.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Kerr <a href=\"https:\/\/hoopshype.com\/rumor\/2684941\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">expressed his desire to stay<\/a> with the franchise he has called home for a decade:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI want to be back,\u201d Kerr tells me. \u201cI\u2019ve made that clear every time I\u2019ve been asked about it. The only thing I won\u2019t talk about is just any detail of contract stuff, but I\u2019ve been very open. I want to come back. Joe [Lacob has] told me he wants me back, so I think I\u2019ll be back.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite a slow start to the season, the Warriors are 29-26 and are <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/02\/18\/the-warriors-are-back-in-playoff-consideration\/\" target=\"_self\">climbing their way up<\/a> the Western Conference standings.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: Golden State\u2019s Steve Kerr has agreed on a two-year, $35 million contract extension, Rick Smith and Dan Eveloff of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PrioritySports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@PrioritySports<\/a> tell ESPN. Kerr\u2019s new deal makes him the highest paid coach in league history at $17.5M a year. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Hpd0xslyCU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/Hpd0xslyCU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wojespn\/status\/1761223795459719581?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 24, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>NBA News: Warriors, Steve Kerr Agree on Two-Year Extension<\/h2>\n<h3>What Does Steve Kerr&#8217;s Contract Extension Mean for the Warriors?<\/h3>\n<p>Recently, there were talks of <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/01\/30\/nba-rumors-golden-state-warriors-keeping-core-together\/\" target=\"_self\">potentially breaking up the team&#8217;s main core<\/a> of Curry, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/t\/thompkl01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-02-24_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Klay Thompson<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/g\/greendr01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-02-24_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Draymond Green<\/a>. However, Kerr&#8217;s extension likely means the team is planning on sticking together to continue what is left of their dynasty.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, Curry spoke about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/nba\/golden-state-warriors\/steph-klay-dray-measure-kerrs-incredible-warriors-impact\/1178915\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kerr&#8217;s impact<\/a> on the Warriors and how important he is to the team&#8217;s success:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;He just brought his humility, his consistency and his empathy for people,&#8221; Curry told NBC Sports Bay Area. &#8220;That&#8217;s a big part of his career and just understanding what it takes to be an NBA player, all the different things that have to go right within an organization to put yourselves in position to be successful. He&#8217;s been in pretty much every seat, player, coach, GM, analyst, everywhere in between. He has a lot of different vantage points on how to communicate and manage people. The care level is through the roof in terms of (players) 1-15, like we&#8217;re going to approach it the same way.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is clear Kerr has the respect of his players, and signing him to an extension is a no-brainer for the Warriors.<\/p>\n<h3>The Last Word on Kerr<\/h3>\n<p>The 2016 NBA Coach of the Year is seemingly not ready to move on from the Warriors. All season, Golden State has faced adversity and is facing its toughest challenges as a group yet. With Kerr committing to the team for multiple years, it will be interesting to see if the team can repeat their past successes for at least one more title in the next few seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Per Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN, the Golden State Warriors and head coach Steve Kerr have agreed on a two-year, $35 million contract extension. This extension will keep Kerr with the Warriors through the 2025-26 season: Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr, an architect of four franchise championships, has agreed on a two-year, $35 million contract [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4631,"featured_media":64890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1608,2,25,62,3],"tags":[409,70,3798,202,48,528],"class_list":["post-64883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball","category-featured","category-warriors","category-nba","category-news","tag-draymond-green","tag-klay-thompson","tag-nba-coach-of-the-year-award","tag-nba-news","tag-stephen-curry","tag-steve-kerr"],"modified_by":"Elie Deglaoui","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}