SAN FRANCISCO – Steve Kerr is taking things one season at a time as the Warriors enter another pivotal offseason.
The Warriors’ longtime coach addressed that topic, and many others, at Chase Center on Friday during his exit interview.
“At this point, it’s year to year,” Kerr said. “I love my job, and it’s so, so much fun. I loved this season, and this was a really gratifying year.”
Kerr has one more year left on his contract.
“He’s as big a part of this as anyone … I love him as a partner in this profession,” Warriors general manager Mike Dunleavy said. “It’s one of those things where we want him to be here as long as he wants to be here, and if it means going year to year, or doing an extension, I think we can figure stuff out.”
After taking a day to reflect on the team’s season, which ended on Wednesday with a Game 5 loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves in the second round of the playoffs, Kerr took stock of what happened.
After playing .500 basketball for much of the season and on the verge of missing the postseason for the second straight year, the February trade for Jimmy Butler saved the season and gave the Warriors direction for the 2025-26 season.
The Warriors went 27-8 when their star trio of Butler, Steph Curry and Draymond Green played, and lost the final four games of the Timberwolves series after Curry injured his left hamstring in the second quarter of Game 1.
He sees room for improvement, but no need for drastic changes.
“Jimmy Butler is one of the best players in the NBA, and you put him next to Steph and next to Draymond, you saw the results,” Kerr said. “All the data supports that, the offensive rating, defensive rating … the game made sense again when we got Jimmy. He comes back next year, we got Steph healthy, and we feel like we can pick up where we left off, but we definitely have to make some improvements.”
Those improvements did not pertain to the team’s offensive philosophy, which has long emphasized off-ball movement, split cuts, quick passing and featuring Curry’s many talents.
Although Kerr said the team will certainly play Jonathan Kuminga – who is entering restricted free agency – with Butler if the fourth-year forward returns, the Warriors’ scheme will not change too much.
“Any talk of, ‘Do we need to change our offensive system?’ to me, is kind of laughable,” Kerr said. “What does that mean? Let’s not run Steph off screens? Let’s not put Steph in pick-and-roll. I’m not even sure how to respond to that. What we’ve done has been incredibly powerful.”
Kerr also praised the development of several young players. He spoke highly of Kuminga’s maturity with handling inconsistent minutes and said he would like to have the forward back next season.
“It felt square peg, round hole for us,” Kerr said. “We obviously went away from JK as part of the rotation, and he handled it really well. For him to stay ready, stay positive, and then get his chance and play well in those last four games of the Minnesota series speaks highly of JK and his approach.”
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“Any time you put high-IQ guys together on the floor, which we did with Draymond, Jimmy, Steph, BP — I mean, you can see the result,” Kerr said.
Though Kerr said roster decisions will be up to the front office, he made it clear that he did not believe Green should be the team’s full-time center, where he played the bulk of his minutes toward the end of the season. He also acknowledged that given that all three stars are 35 or older, a big move could be on the table.
“You have to factor in the age of our three best players, you have to, if you’re Mike and his group,” Kerr said. “So some kind of balance within that conversation is definitely necessary, and it’s not an easy question to answer.”
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