Appearing this week on The Tom Tolbert Show (YouTube link), Warriors head coach Steve Kerr provided some insight into the circumstances that led to the heated sidelines confrontation between him and veteran forward Draymond Green last Monday. In Kerr’s view, the entire back-and-forth was the result of a “misunderstanding,” as Angelina Martin of NBC Bay Area relays.
“Draymond was talking to the refs, and I had called a timeout because I thought we lost our focus,” Kerr explained. “And I wasn’t mad at him, but he was talking to the ref for a long time, and then I see five of our players over there trying to bring him back and he had been ejected the night before. So I started yelling his name, ‘Draymond! Draymond!’ Basically just telling him to, asking him to get to the huddle.
“He thought I was yelling at him because of a turnover he had just made, and so he says something snarky, I say something back snarky, and next thing you know, we’re yelling at each other. We’re at each other’s throats, and then it all comes to bear.
“But I should have been calmer at that time. Like, I know Draymond so well and there’s always a buildup to these things, and he’s such an emotional player and passionate player and he had been frustrated for a couple of days, and I recognized that, but I needed to recognize it and do something about it in the huddle. I needed to be the the the calming force, and so we went back and forth and I regretted not being the calming one in that conversation.”
Green went to the locker room following the altercation and didn’t play for the rest of that game. But he and Kerr both downplayed the incident after the game, with the Warriors’ longtime head coach later taking full responsibility and telling reporters a couple days after the fact that the situation had been resolved. Green has played his normal role since then.
Here’s more on the Warriors:
- With several regulars sidelined, forward Jonathan Kuminga was supposed to play on Friday for the first time in two-plus weeks. However, Kuminga was a late addition to the injury report due to low back soreness and was ultimately held out of action despite being active. According to Kerr, Kuminga’s injury surfaced before the game and it’s unclear whether or not it will linger (Twitter link via Nick Friedell of The Athletic). After this missed opportunity, it seems increasingly plausible that the fifth-year forward won’t see the court again before he becomes trade-eligible on January 15.
- Kerr said after Friday’s loss that Green will return on Saturday vs. Utah after sitting out on Friday, and he’s hopeful Stephen Curry (ankle) will be back as well (Twitter link via Friedell). Jimmy Butler‘s availability will depend on how quickly his illness clears up, but it doesn’t sound like he’ll be out long either.
- The Warriors essentially tanked Friday’s game against the defending champion Thunder, a 37-point loss, writes Monte Poole of NBC Bay Area. The team’s goal wasn’t to improve its draft position but to get a few veterans some much-needed rest ahead of more winnable games. “The schedule is what it is,” Kerr said. “When you have an older team, you have to navigate it as best you can. We’re trying to do that.”
- Veteran guard De’Anthony Melton, who re-signed with the Warriors this summer on a minimum-salary contract, told NBC Sports Bay Area’s Poole and Bonta Hill on the Dubs Talk podcast that he had no hard feelings about the team trading him away last season after he tore his ACL. “Given what my contract was, the mid-level, that’s a serviceable player,” Melton said. “You want someone like that who’s going to provide something good for your team. With me going down, and the dip the team took, I understood and I kind of saw it coming. And I think talking with (general manager) Mike (Dunleavy Jr.) and talking with Steve, they kind of helped me with that situation, too. So I had a feeling it was coming and I understood it. When it was on the horizon, I told them it’s OK. I said, ‘Honestly, I would trade me, too.'”
If you defend Steve Kerr or anything he says or does in 2026, you don’t know ball and you should not be allowed to open your mouth about it. Just utter malpractice – he is corrupt, he does not believe in his team, he hates coaching in the NBA – he needs to just retire or have Lacob stop being a coward and finally fire this absolute loser who has literally been a net negative to every team he won a ring on, he is nothing but a generational coattails-rider and nothing more. “Carried by greats his whole life” goes on his tombstone.
Why he continues in a job he hates is because of corruption, likely being the mob forcing him to keep doing this, so he can continue playing the dumbest lineups imaginable with a roster that should be winning much more games, so gamblers can win more knowing he is going to go small/no defense. Why is an NBA head coach allowed to telegraph his moves before the game even starts? Explain that. He plays a normal starting 5 now, but then 5 mins in switches to smallball/no defense and keeps those failing lineups out there for 75% of the game. All opposition coaches know what he is going to do, why even be a coach if you are letting the opps know ALL your moves???
I’ve taken to cutting and pasting some of these ravings and forwarding them to friends and associates most of whom have been around either pro or college basketball since back into the 60’s and 70’s. “You don’t know ball” wouldn’t apply to any of these folks. Of particular note are a couple of reactions to the following gems: “~~~ he hates coaching in the NBA~~~”, and “~~~ corruption, likely being the mob forcing him to keep doing this ~~~”
I can’t quote the responses here and remain civil.
You care THAT much.
About an anonymous comments section.
And you made that all up.
The levels of pathetic that your life is, we do not have words for.
Tell your made-up friends I said this to them: YDKB.
Bro you’re in this comment section like 7 times. There is nobody here that cares about this more than you.
He is not a “homer” btw
Warriors are not a playoff team. The GM is the problem and they’ve drafted terribly lately. It’s not on Kerr. If they fire him, they will lose so many more games.
Kerr passed on Maxime Raynaud ….. i still don’t understand that. Why did their management pass on him. Why did Dunleavy pass on him. Major gaffe.
Instead they drafted…another shooting guard…who they traded a week later. Big time fumble by MDJ, who in that same draft luckily robbed Memphis blind in trading Mashack, Jessup and a 2RP for Will Richard, who already has that “10 year vet” presence in his rookie year and will be one of those cheap players that a contender can build with.
Honestly GSW has a young core that isn’t far away. Podz and Kerr gotta go but this team can 100% win a title with Steph Curry leading the way.
I can’t imagine the amount of red yarn you go through
Yeah but they traded that pick for Raynaud.
The mob comments crack me up! LOL
Biggest tell of a bad commenter on here is the one who calls me a homer. My daily “Kerr sucks for this reason: ____” posts prove I am many, many tiers above a lowly homer fan, even though I have been following the Warriors since I was a little kid.
I want them to win, and I expect a team with a healthy prime Curry active should at least make the Finals. Kerr is literally preventing that on purpose and then going “woe as me, we stink now even though we are 19-17 in the tougher conference, but I’m not changing anything and I’m not leaving, because I must make them lose even though I don’t have to think this self-defeatedly, I must ruin Curry’s prime as hard as I can. Now, back to playing a 6’2″ power forward that does nothing but get 900 dunks thrown down on his head and who throws the ball into the stands for no reason, I love this nepo baby who did not get offered a contract by any other team! Totally not corrupt around here!”
“It’s unclear whether or not it will linger.”
Clearly the back discomfort will linger another 12 days.
At this point it’s pretty safe to say the Warriors are more afraid of Kuminga ruining whatever value he has playing professional basketball publicly, than they are of him ruining his value by getting hurt playing professional basketball.
Kuminga has given up on the warriors. He wants to be traded. Can you blame him?
Biggest take away is the warriors back ups failed. Not one of them step up to have a great game. They all struggled at the opportunity to show they are the next generation of warriors. Other big take away is not one of them proved to be a future scorer 3rd option player on the team. Usually in games like these some future star shines but not one of them shined. Spencer showed he is just a 2 way player. OKC carved him up on defense like a turkey on thanksgiving.
Kerr has given up on the Warriors, he is literally saying it out loud…so why stay in the job that you hate?
My theory that Kerr loves losing more than winning grows stronger every day. Coward Lacob is such a loser for not firing him.
Idiots on here call me a homer, but would a homer admit this about his team? Remember when he was “Joey Light Years”? What is “light years” about appointing your head coach to a lifetime job when he has mashed potato brains and runs no-defense rotations for 75% of the game and then wonders why he loses? Its actually “light years” to let a boomer loser nepo baby have a lifetime job. Cool story coward – fire Kerr or ELSE!!!
I been telling you for a while now Kerr is retiring. Lacob will let him have his final chance but seeing there is no contract extension and no talk of Kerr coming back Lacob is saying win deep into playoffs or retire.
Dunleavy said two months that Kerr has a contract extension if he wants it.
2 months ago things looked a lot better than now. Insiders are saying the warriors and Kerr are not on the same page. There been discussions on what they want kerr to change.
2 months ago you were just as mediocre as you are now.
2 months ago they got off to a good start. What was their record 4 -3
What insiders? Dunleavy knew what issues the Warriors were facing. Why would his stance change now.
You never hear about close door meetings but that happened twice this year with MDJ. One had to do with kuminga situation of not playing him. they will not fire Kerr but they will let him ride out teh season. lacob last month didn’t sound very happy with where the team is headed.
Who are the insiders? How do they know what happened in this meetings? Why would Lacob keep Kerr around if he didn’t like the job he was doing? Do you realize how the Warriors ownership made their money? They didn’t do it by being passive.
From what is talked about on radio. I don’t remember before having meetings between Kerr and team officials. Lacob said he doesn’t like losing and changes will happen. What he meant by that who knows. Kerr has not been looking happy and when asked about an extension he said he will decide in the off season.
You cant be as frustrated as me. I’m working on it. It’s complicated. Style of play. Coaches desires regarding players…..
Jeez. You cant make this up, lol.
the frustration is watching how they are losing games that they should have won. Knowing they need a back up PG to Curry that has handles to dribble the ball and not caught in a double team. Knowing they lack size and Kerr playing small ball when it doesn’t work against most teams. Watching them go 3 pt happy missing most of their shots. Might be the most frustrating season they have had in a real long time.
Arc, I pray that is true and I support you celebrating calling it this early, but almost nothing is pointing to this being true. I think Kerr thinks he will coach until Curry retires. Curry is still putting up 50 points in a game so he has many years left…I pray every night we get to see a Curry Warriors without Kerr…
Last time the Warriors were without Kerr, and had Curry, they had no titles and were a lottery team. Funny. You don’t even know your own team.
Lacob is a gigantic idiot and never did a good job other than getting lucky in 3 drafts.
Dude, what medication are you on? You’re out here writing manuscripts about a 8th seed, acting like Kuminga is gonna save them. Get real. The Warriors have their moments but, as currently constructed, they are a bit better than the Jazz. Work on the other aspects of your life so that you’re not dousing your keyboard in tears while Mike Dunleavy continues to not know who you are.
?? who is saying Kuminga is gonna save them? they have a better record than 7 teams in the WC. Don’t come here to post if you are going to make up things and try to put words in somebody’s mouth. You sound like somebody that makes up things to feel better about themselves. So instead of attacking me explain your comment better.
Be realistic. Beating OKC is a tall task. Giving your best players strategic rest will only help in the long run.
Saying that beating OKC is a tall task is like saying Wemby is a dwarf
/you dont watch the games + /you accuse others of being on drugs = your opinions are worthless around here
If you watched the games (you didnt) you would have seen GSW go out to commanding leads in every single game, only to have Kerr go small/no defense and then lose because he played 4 shooting guards at the same time. You would know this if you knew ball, but you don’t. This Warriors team should be 25-10 right now. Anyone watching them knows they aren’t too far off from getting it all together. Just need to get rid of Kerr, Buddy and play Podz less because he doesn’t fit the system.
hey davey who you think this cocotaso burner account is? Sounds like some burner account that is a warrior hater. Never seen them before on this site.
them and meadowlark are big time trolls and haters. no idea where they came from but you (as usual) are probably right about this lol
“you would have seen GSW go out to commanding leads in every single game” <—A quick check of the facts: In the last 5 games the dubs have fallen behind early in 4 out of the 5, more or less breaking even in only a single game. Your comment is completely in error. Unfortunately these are matters of fact and not worthy of measuring up to your usual maniacal ravings. Er, uh, well, to paraphrase: You don't know ARITHMETIC.
The warriors gave away 7 games this season so far that a good team would have won. When the bar was set so high the last decade and you see your team blow games they would have easily won season ago is why warrior fans are complaining.
LITERALLY EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO ISNT IN YOUR BRAINWASHED CULT TRIED TO TELL YOU THIS WAS HAPPENING
They just got Jimmy last yr at TD. Just more denial.
A good Kuminga trade could at least get them into the playoffs.
go back to the NY board little man
You’re no “homer” 2.0. Nope, that’s not the word.
Warriors should be fined for both Curry and Butler. They won’t, but they absolutely should be. It’s hilarious that the excuse is “we wouldn’t have played a competitive game either way”
Curry did twist his ankle. Butler who knows but he wasn’t at the game last night. NBA fault for making teh oldest team in the NBA have so many back to back games.
You chickened out and ducked a team you couldn’t beat. If this was a game to secure a playoff seed or a playoff game itself, everyone would have played. That’s why they should be fined. It’s the preferential treatment that allows the organization to escape the fine.
You mean like how every NBA team does the same? How teams will rest their stars playing a back to back game. Next you will complain about OKC resting their stars in the 4th quarter. Post your favorite team so i can monitor their roster on a back to back.
@Druuu not understanding literally every team does this, especially teams that could easily be facing each other in the playoffs need to maintain an advantage by not engaging the playoffs matchups. Get a new angle, this one ain’t it (like almost everything you say on here).
You know what Druu, they don’t care if you call them every name under the sun. Chickened out, cowards, whatever.
They do what they gotta do for the overall good of the team.
The Warriors are thinking playoffs and they’re thinking of advancing in the playoffs and whatever they need to do to get there and make that happen, they’re going to do it.
You want to call them a name? They don’t give a crap about that. Say what you want and shout it loudly. We don’t give a crap.
We’ll rest when we need to rest and we’ll play when we need to play.
Curry’s ankle definitely rolled over, it’s on camera – that is legit when you consider his ankle injuries over the years, its totally verifiable. With Jimmy, you probably have a point.
That being said, when this happens it’s usually a 5D chess move “in case we meet in the playoffs they won’t know what to do” They do meet again in March, but I would bet money on many stars on either side not playing then, too, although it would likely be the Thunder withholding guys because the Warriors are going to need as many reg season wins as they can to try and avoid the play-in and the Thunder likely will be sealed in the top 4.
GSW has played 35 games. Only in 7 of them were they blown out. In all other games they were late and close. They lead the league in clutch game appearances. These are facts. But that means if GSW had a coach who wasn’t some defeatist, pro-losing guy who doesn’t do any aspect of his job well and refuses to schedule practices and always pulls the half-day chord who does not care about his job at all, they would be 28-7 and 2nd place in the tougher conference. Losing winnable games comes back to early game rotation use. Kerr uses too many rotations and all of them working never happens. A smart coach lets the rotation that is destroying the opps stay out there as long as possible, while Kerr removes them and does not let any player start getting into a groove, because GP2 and Podz have to get minutes where they play zero defense.
If Giannis doesn’t come saving this fan base, oh boy the future looks bleak.
I see what you’re saying, but Giannis is not coming to San Francisco to save the Warriors. That’s for sure.
What the Warriors need is 2 rotation playoff caliber guys.
A big man and a guard or wing of consequence.
Help Curry, Butler, and Graymond make a run this year. Dump the peripheral Young guys who have no place here.
JK is out. I hope he still has value and can bring someone back. Of course the trading team will need more than him so throw in Moody (who really sucks,) and a bunch of other guys plus the first round pick.
There has to be a guy that can help this team out there that’s on an unfriendly contract and the team wouldn’t mind Sending him elsewhere.
That’s the guy the Warriors want and that’s the guy the Warriors need. The challenge will be getting two of those dudes.
In Dunleavy I trust lol
Norm Powell?
Norman Powell is definitely a hired assassin. The guy is a walking bucket.
He’s also a smart player who could fit well with the vet dubs.
The future has been bleak since 2022
Not so “bleak” when a team makes the playoffs, beats the number two seed in the Conf, and then moves on to the second round.
And that was just last year not three years ago lol.
Oh and three years ago? Um, they won it all.
Your definition of “bleak” is strange in my opinion.
Why do people always come in here trashing the Warriors? They’ve been very successful and even lately?
Really have to wonder if you know how to separate legitimate analysis and actual hate for a franchise?
Gary – I promise you nobody on this board who likes basketball hates the Warriors. It’s the gaggle of people on here who speak about the current iteration of the Warriors like they’re still the juggernaut of the NBA or close to it. It’s tiresome and it’s literally on every thread. No actual basketball discussions can even be had because these people can’t set their fandom to the side enough to be objective about what’s happening right in front of them.
A lot of people have had to root for crappy teams and for a long time. To see how much this group of people is in denial after all their success is frankly bothersome.
Also just a hell of a lot of fun to dunk on Davey, who makes it easier and easier every day.
There’s two guys that I don’t read the comments because of the muting option and that’s Davey and Angry Knicks Al.
Other than that, I’m good. Those two don’t talk basketball. They talk commenters and they talk nonsense.
So thank you for your logical comments and excellent basketball opinions. It’s rare nowadays, but I appreciate them.
We’re actually in the same boat because of all the time that the kings have been less than spectacular, the Warriors have equally been crappy. I’m talking 20 years, in the 80s 90s etc..
WashingtonBonercats, you know we’re all good and we’ve always been all good and we will be always all good in the future.
Thank you @washington__bonercats. Couldnt have said it better myself.
Gary is one of them. 90% of the Warriors on here are like that. Wagoneers lol. No real knowledgeable basketball fans act like that. It’s great to win. We all know great runs come to an end. You can’t criticize the Warriors. You can’t suggest moves. They have literally insulted JK cause he hasn’t helped. They blame the refs. The NBA schedule. Teams playing dirty. Got more excuses than a 7 yr old. Never in my life, never in NYC. Have I seen grown men act like this over sports. Not even the Red Sox or Patriots fans act like this after they started winning. Straight up BABIES. Do not understand or respect competition.
Every moment from the Draymond punch onwards has been a waking hell to live through as a basketball fan, and it’s entirely on Kerr, as he initiated the Poole/Draymond incident. Steph never left his prime, he still is top 5 and an MVP candidate every single year. All wasted because Kerr decided to play Anthony Lamb over Kuminga for no reason at all. Nonstop no defense small ball in a league that knows how to easily counter it. Playing random guys as his “connector” guy who plays 35 MPG but who also isn’t a top 8 talent on the team, just losing on purpose, that’s Kerr’s MO. The recent past has been bleak, but it looked like last season they were at least an easy WCF team and were looking to build off that. Even stats watchers can look up his rotations and go “what? why?”. Kuminga leads the team in rebounds a game but gets DNPs for Podziemski, who is so awful and not a fit in this system at all, exactly why Russ was never a fit in GSW and why they never targeted him to acquire.
Here is how you win with these rosters: play your best 5 players as long as possible. That’s it. CTE-brained Kerr never let Curry get fully hot, he always pulled him when he was torching teams…that was always a big tell that Kerr actually hates Curry, Kerr always seemed to get off on how little he needed to play Curry to win, but Curry is why they win and ultimately why they lose, as the lineups Kerr runs out there without Steph are always the worst possible ones.
That’s right: we could have easily had a better Curry than this one. Only if we had Pop or even Erik…
The Dubs ducked OKC 😂😂😂
That says it all about the FO, the HC, and the “Stars”. Might as well forfeit 😂😂😂
Yes, you 100% should always duck your playoff opponent during the regular season, that’s good strategy, and that’s always been canon in this league. Every single playoff team does this when facing their possible playoff opponents in the reg season once it becomes evident that team will make the playoffs. Are you new to this? Have you never followed a playoff team before? Why all the laughing emojis? Do you not know ball?
So a few other teams are playing a back to back tonight and they are keeping players out of their lineup so are they ducking their opponent too? Oh the irony when its only a controversay when the warriors do it.
OKC are a playoff opponent to GSW? I guess when you’re a play in like the Warriors, the number 1 seed will likely be your first round opponent.
These dudes are hilarious. Ducking your playoff opponent…As though y’all have a chance when the playoffs come… if they even make the playoffs.
They’ll make the playoffs. Too many western teams are hoping to tank. It’s almost a guaranteed thing to make it.
As long as the Warriors are .500 at the trade deadline, they’ll try to get two players to plug in to what they already have and improve their lot.
They have dudes on the bench they want to get rid of, and I’m hoping Dunleavy turns those semi-assets plus a 1st round pick into serviceable playoff veterans.
Didn’t they beat the number 2 seed last year as the seventh seed?
Why would you even say that it’s such a longshot to do what they did last year?
Don’t be so quick to be a hater and actually try to use legitimate analysis when stating your basketball prognosis.
It’ll help with your credibility overall.
I just reviewed the schedule for the Warriors the rest of the way, and it is way more kind to them than the first half was. I think a big part of their underperformance has to do with that than anything else.
“The Warriors are fighting for a play off spot because they played too many good teams”
The logic jump you have to make to have this thought and then immediately think they are contenders is so funny. This poor kid is going to have a stroke.
It’s still way worse than OKC’s schedule, the Rockets’ schedule, and the Spurs’ schedule – about the only west team with a worse schedule is the Nuggets.
The Warriors play the entirely of January, Feb and April (minus Jan 22-28 and Feb 24-25) inside California+Phoenix. That isn’t a bad schedule at all. You are tripping.
Lots of comments for a play-in team one injury to one of their grandpas away from being a lotto team.
they will beat your jazz tonight.
Where is the best place tor Kuminga. That’s what Warriors fans should concentrate on. That should be where best return is. Unless there is a specific player Warriors are targeting.
Nets are rebuilding. So all young talent is welcome there……… KPJ or Claxton.
Suns like Kuminga. He fits a need at SF. What do they offer ??
Lakers with Bron leaving. Have a need at SF. Reaves would be nice. Definitely ask
Blazers — ???? Grant can play in GS. Would they want Kuminga. They have Sharpe and Deni.
Bucks can definitely yse him. What can they iffer ??
The market is not looking great. Hopefully they have a trade in place ……
Bucks can offer a certain someone who should rightfully be furious at his team building a “big 3” around him, Kyle Kuzma and Myles Turner. Idiotic team building, the Warriors aren’t even built as bad as the Bucks are. But I guess that was the bucks ownerships move all along: to enrage Giannis so he leaves and they can tank.
If MDJ can trade Kuminga $22.5M, Draymond $25.9M and Hield $9.2M that’s $57.6M they can bring back in players to replace guys who aren’t even playing, which they can sweeten with first round picks.
Everyone hating on the Warriors can’t see the forest from the trees. They are 19-17 with $57M in dead money sitting out there every game, being a net negative. If they could turn that $57M into literally anyone healthy who fits the system, they will improve greatly, to top 6 and maybe top 4 status. They basically don’t leave California for January, Feb and April. I am the only one who likes GSW’s future, which would be even brighter if they had a head coach who cares about the game.
Davey you know he isn’t doing that. Kerr is finishing this year. Then you will have a better understanding of what direction this team will go. Kuminga is your best trade chip. Hope he is wanted by a few teams. Can’t look past this TD. Warriors are all about now.