Ryan YoungStaff writerMon, April 20, 2026 at 8:02 PM UTC·3 min readDraymond Green thinks that the Steve Kerr era in Golden State is over.
Green, speaking on his podcast on Monday, thinks that the longtime Warriors coach won’t be with the organization next season. Their loss to the Phoenix Suns on Friday night, which kept them out of the playoffs, felt like the end.
“I hope he’s our coach next season,” Green said. “You want my opinion? I think not. Just because it feels like that. It felt like that was it.”
Kerr first took over as the Warriors’ head coach ahead of the 2014-15 campaign. He led the franchise, which is the only one he’s ever served as a head coach for, on a dynasty-level run throughout the league right away. The Warriors won four NBA titles under his watch, and reached the NBA Finals six times in eight years.
But the Warriors went just 37-45 this past season and are now missing the playoffs for the second time in three years. And after their loss to the Suns on Friday night, Kerr embraced both Green and Stephen Curry in an emotional moment on the court.
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“I don’t know what’s going to happen next, but I love you guys to death,” Kerr was heard telling the duo. “Thank you. Appreciate you.”
Kerr openly acknowledged that he may not be with the Warriors next season on Friday night, too. He said he was going to “take a week or two” before eventually sitting down with owner Joe Lacob and general manager Mike Dunleavy.
“I don’t know what’s going to happen,” Kerr said. “I still love coaching, but I get it. These jobs all have an expiration date. There’s a run that happens, and sometimes it’s time for new blood and new ideas and all that.
“If that’s the case, then I will be nothing but grateful for the most amazing opportunity any person could have to coach in front of our fans in the Bay, to coach Steph Curry, to coach Dray, the whole group. It may still go on, it may not. I don't know at this point."
Kerr has apparently been conflicted about his future in recent weeks, according to ESPN, and the likelihood of his return is only about 50%. The team reportedly wants “to hear Kerr express a hunger to continue executing the nitty-gritty details of the daily job,” according to ESPN. If he does want to return, the organization wants him to sign a multiyear deal rather than just a farewell tour-type return as Curry and Green — the last remaining faces of the Warriors’ dynasty era — reach the last stages of their respective careers.
Curry has one season left on his current deal, and just turned 38 last month. Green, 36, has one year left on his four-year, $100 million deal with a player option for next season.
Like his coach, Green is also very uncertain about what is next for him.
"I've never been so uncertain since earlier in my career in what happens next," Green said on his podcast. "But I'm truly at a loss now because you don't know what direction will be next … I also hope I'm on this team next season. We also don't know that. Man, if it was, what a run."