TRAGEDY: Golden Warrior coach is very angry and announces his resignation today After facing…
TRAGEDY: Golden Warrior coach is furious and announces his resignation today. After facing.
Warriors coach Steve Kerr always intended to stay with Stephen Curry, Draymond Green, and the rest of Golden State’s star-studded lineup.
Kerr signed a $35 million, two-year contract extension that will take him through the 2025-26 season. He is presently in his tenth season.
Golden State announced the deal Tuesday after the sides had reached agreement last Friday. The 58-year-old Kerr brought four NBA championships to the franchise in his first eight seasons as coach — and he wasn’t in a rush to sign beyond his current contract that had been set to expire after this season.
“I was never worried about anything. I knew I wanted to come back,” Kerr said Tuesday in Washington before the Warriors played the Wizards. “(Owner) Joe (Lacob) made it clear he wanted me back, and we worked it out and I couldn’t be more excited.”
Kerr said the length of the extension, two years, was what he wanted.
“We’re in a really unique situation where we have an era that’s winding down and another era that’s coming and we’re trying to make them merge,” Kerr said. “Let’s keep it rolling for another couple years and then reassess at that point.”
Kerr will coach the U.S. team at the Paris Olympics this summer and had said repeatedly his focus was on coaching and not his unsettled contract situation.
After the Warriors beat Charlotte 97-84 on Friday, Kerr didn’t want to discuss the new deal but instead noted he felt “really good” about his future with Golden State. He led the Warriors to their first championship in 40 years as a rookie coach in 2014-15.
When he won his 500th game Feb. 15, he did so in just 764 games — the fifth-fewest games to accomplish the mark.
He is one of four Warriors coaches to win an NBA title, joining Eddie Gottlieb (1947), George Senesky (1956) and Alvin Attles (1975).
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