Steve Kerr isn’t quite worried about entering the 2025-26 NBA season as a lame duck.
The Golden State Warriors head coach Kerr spoke with reporters on Tuesday. During his remarks, Kerr addressed his long-term future with the team and made some interesting comments.
Kerr, who is entering the final year of his contract with the Warriors, said that he was comfortable with tabling contract discussions until the end of the season. He also added that he hopes to be with Golden State for “another few years.”
“I’m very comfortable going into the season with a year left,” he said, per ESPN’s Anthony Slater. “I’m so aligned with [general manager] Mike [Dunleavy] and [owner] Joe [Lacob]. We’ve talked about this. There is no reason for discussion or concern. This is kind of a point in our relationship where let’s just see how it is at the end of the year.
“I love my job,” Kerr said. “I love what I’m doing every day. I can’t wait to get to the building. Hopefully I’m here for another few years. But I think it makes sense for the organization and for me to see where this thing is at the end of the year — where they are and where I am.”
Kerr, now 60 years old, is indisputably the greatest head coach in Warriors history. He has led the team to six NBA Finals berths and four championships over the years, also winning NBA Coach of the Year in 2015-16. Kerr has a career record in Golden State of 567-308 (.648) and, since taking over in 2014, has only missed the postseason at large once (which was in 2019-20 when Steph Curry missed almost the entire year due to injury).
That said, the Warriors are entering something of a last hurrah at this point as Curry is 37 years old, Draymond Green is 35, and Jimmy Butler is 36. Meanwhile, all three of those guys come off the books entirely by 2027.
Kerr is going into the final year of the two-year, $35 million extension he signed with Golden State in early 2024. But there are definitely signs that the Warriors remain entirely committed to Kerr (including with some personnel decisions they have recently made), and Kerr himself also clearly wants to keep on going for several more years.
