Overview
- Steve Kerr will meet owner Joe Lacob and GM Mike Dunleavy this week to decide whether he returns as head coach after his contract expired, and he has said he will not coach another NBA team next season.
- In reporting from ESPN and others, the Warriors want a multiyear commitment plus stylistic and staff changes if he stays, while a departure is described as likely to start an organizational reset that could reach the roster around Stephen Curry.
- In a wide-ranging New Yorker interview, Kerr said he does not want to abandon Curry and Draymond Green and added he believes Curry will play a couple more years.
- The interview also revealed strain with Green, with Kerr saying there are things he can never forgive, and it included a bold idea to remove the three-point line to promote more varied play.
- Kerr expressed regret for calling President Trump a “buffoon,” and The Athletic reported his political outspokenness has at times caused internal frustration within the organization.