Steve Kerr is weighing whether he wants to keep coaching the Golden State Warriors after 12 seasons and four championships, and there still had been no serious talks with team management about his status as of Sunday afternoon. Kerr said Friday that he wanted to take a few days to think before meeting with Mike Dunleavy and Joe Lacob, after a season-ending loss in Phoenix left him sounding more ready to walk away than to return.
The Warriors are expected to hold their 2025-26 exit interviews on Monday, but the traditional season-wrap-up sessions by Dunleavy and Kerr have been put off until there is clarity about Kerr's future. That delay is telling: Lacob and Dunleavy had spent the season acting as if they wanted and planned for Kerr to be back in 2026-27, even as the coach himself said it felt like that was it after Friday night.
Kerr has been the defining coach of the Curry era, and the uncertainty around him now sits at the center of the team’s offseason. Curry and Draymond addressed the major issues after the loss in Phoenix on Friday night, but the biggest question for the franchise is whether the coach who has guided its most successful run will be on the bench for 2026-27.
For now, the timeline is straightforward. Talks that were expected later this week cannot happen until Kerr decides whether he is ready to continue. Until then, the Warriors are stuck waiting on the answer that will shape everything that comes next.
