After the Warriors captured their third championship in four seasons on Friday, owner Joe Lacob said that the organization expects to sign head coach Steve Kerr to an extension, ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne writes.
Kerr, 52, has one year left on the original five-year, $25MM pact he signed with Golden State prior to the 2014/15 season. With three championships to his credit, the organization wants to keep Kerr in his current role.
“We’ll get it done this summer,” Lacob said. “Let him rest a little bit. But we’ll get it done. He wants to be with us. We want him long term. He obviously has some health issues he’s still working through, but we’ll get it done. I think as long as he feels comfortable doing it long term, we want him.”
Health issues have been a recurring theme during Kerr’s tenure as head coach. Last season, Kerr missed a month-and-a-half of the postseason due to painful migraines and nausea that stemmed from back surgery he underwent two years prior. Kerr also missed the first 43 games of the 2015/16 season due to complications from back surgery. Kerr coached the entire 2017/18 season without issue.
All told, Kerr has coached the Warriors to a 265-63 record in four seasons, leading the team to the NBA Finals in each of those campaigns.
I bet even Dionis could coach this team to a title
Now that’s funny!!!
Genius
You need to have at least basic basketball knowledge though.
You can drop the mic right there…
lmaoooo
Except no. Jackson couldn’t figure it out and he was a real coach. Kerr deserves a ton of credit and is an excellent coach. Huge part of the warriors success.
328-265 can’t be right, can it?
Wasn’t that as a player?
I think someone got in too much of a hurry on basketball reference. His career record is 265-63
Y’all joke but Kerr is a top 5 coach in the NBA. The spacing and ball movement system he built, he deserves credit for that. A lot of coaches can’t even get their teams to pass the ball.
If the Rockets had Kerr, they would have won the series cause they wouldn’t have wasted two games on IsoHarden.
We’ve had super teams before but only this one holds the regular season win record.
His job is easy now but it wasn’t 3 years ago.