In today’s Dub Hub:
- Steve Kerr says he’s “excited to keep competing” after the team makes his return official via a press release on Tuesday.
- ESPN’s Wright Thompson shared the full details behind Steve Kerr’s decision to return to the Warriors.
- Cavaliers beat the Pistons, 117-113, in Game 5 Wednesday night to take a 3-2 series lead.
The Golden State Warriors made it official on Tuesday, announcing the return of head coach Steve Kerr after the two sides agreed to terms on a multi-year contract. In a press release posted by the team, Kerr expressed his gratitude to the organization and said he is “excited to keep competing” with the Warriors once again.
“I’m grateful for the opportunity to continue coaching this team,” Kerr said via the team’s
press release. “This organization has meant so much to me for the last 12 years — from ownership to our players, our staff and our fans — and it’s an incredible privilege to be a part of something so special. I’m excited to keep competing with this group.”
Kerr’s return brings stability to a Warriors organization entering a pivotal offseason after finishing the 2025-26 season with a 37-45 record and missing the playoffs. Despite the disappointing finish, Golden State is clearly still placing its trust in the coach who helped lead the franchise to four NBA championships and help build one of the NBA’s greatest dynasties.
So with Kerr now officially back in the fold, attention quickly shifts to the Warriors’ offseason plans and how the front office decides to build around Steph Curry for what could be one final run at another championship.
For more on this and other news around the NBA, here is our latest news round-up for Thursday, May 14th:
Warriors News:
Why Steve Kerr stayed with the Warriors | ESPN
STEVE KERR WALKED into the lobby of the Beverly Wilshire with a secret. Win or lose, he’d decided to retire as head coach of the Golden State Warriors. It was a Tuesday morning in mid-April, the day before the team’s first postseason play-in game in Los Angeles. When this season ended, his 12-year run with the Golden State Warriors would end, too. In the airy hotel restaurant behind the concierge desk, Kerr gave his name and room number, 516 — “Johnny Bench Joe Montana” — and a hostess showed us to a table by the window. He looked around and lowered his voice.
“I think it’s over,” he said, almost mouthing the words.
The latest NBA Intel … most notably the view from Chicago on where Philadelphia goes from here | The Stein Line
It was stressed to me Tuesday night that Myers — although he is scheduled to arrive soon in Chicago to dive into his various pressing tasks — will step back into an advisory role once Morey’s successor is named.
I’m also told Myers will interview candidates internally as well as externally to take over … but also that it’s far too early to name any possible favorites for the role.
One item, however, that has been spelled out rather definitively: For all the recent rumblings about Myers’ affinity for former Golden State Finals MVP Andre Iguodala, I’m told Philadelphia does not plan to consider the ex-Sixer and current executive director of the NBA Players Association as a potential candidate for its new front office.
Draymond Green talks Clippers following the results of the NBA Draft Lottery: “Are they gonna move Kawhi Leonard?”
NBA News:
4 takeaways: Cavaliers earn overtime victory and 3-2 edge over Pistons | NBA
The Cleveland Cavaliers won a road playoff game and did so despite shaky shooting from Donovan Mitchell.
It’s hard to tell which one was more disbelieving, but both happened in the swing game of their semifinal series, and because of that, the Cavs can close out the top-seeded Detroit Pistons in Cleveland on Friday.
The Cavs, who won on the road for the first time in these playoffs, had most of the answers in the last two minutes of the fourth quarter and in overtime. They were scrappy, determined, unbothered by their previous mistakes.
Baylor’s Cameron Carr among standouts in NBA Draft combine scrimmage
In case you missed it at Golden State of Mind:
Warriors had a lot of ‘Giannis conversations’ at draft lottery
But the Warriors also don’t have a lot of options better than taking a home-run swing on Antetokounmpo if they want to maximize the rest of Steph Curry’s career, and trading for Antetokounmpo is probably more likely than convincing LeBron James to take a substantial pay cut to relocated 350 miles north.
It’s still quite early to be making moves, but as a wise man from Tupelo, Mississippi, the Warriors need a little less conversation, and a little more action.
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