Steve Kerr is thankful that he’s gotten the opportunity to coach future Hall-of-Famer Stephen Curry for the past 12 seasons, as Nick Friedell writes for The Athletic, and that relationship will be a significant factor Kerr takes into consideration as he weighs his decision on his coaching future.
“I don’t want to walk away from Steph,” Kerr said after the Warriors’ season ended. “I’m definitely not going and coaching somewhere else next year in the NBA. I would never walk away from Steph, but all the stuff has to be aligned and right.”
Kerr said that much of the success he experienced while building the team’s culture over the years came from the fact that he and Curry share the same values, not just in basketball but in life.
The 60-year-old coach will not rush his decision, nor will the team push him on it, according to Anthony Slater at ESPN. Instead, Kerr will take a week or two to gauge what he’s looking for over the next few years.
“It’s April,” a team source told Slater. “We don’t need to rush.”
We have more from around the Pacific Division:
- Mark Williams is out for the Suns‘ Game 3 against the Thunder on Saturday, Duane Rankin of the Arizona Republic notes (via Twitter). Williams has missed the start of the series due to a stress reaction in his left foot that has kept him sidelined since April 10 and also forced him to miss 15 games in March. Oso Ighodaro started Game 2 in his place, though rookie big man Khaman Maluach closed the game, playing the entire fourth quarter.
- After grinding his way from depth piece to a valuable part of the rotation, the Suns need Jordan Goodwin‘s energy more than ever, Doug Haller writes for The Athletic. Goodwin made just 10 starts for Phoenix during the regular season, but six of those starts came in the final month, and he also started Game 1 before his calf injury sidelined him after just five minutes. Goodwin is a game-time decision for Saturday, Rankin writes (via Twitter), as is Grayson Allen.
- LeBron James added yet another magical playoff moment to his impressive collection in the Lakers‘ Game 3 victory over the Rockets on Friday, The Athletic’s Dan Woike writes. James capped off a 30-second, six-point comeback by hitting a three-pointer in front of the Rockets’ bench. His attempted game-winner moments later rimmed out, but he and the Lakers sealed the victory in overtime. “In the moment right now, I don’t really think about it,” teammate Rui Hachimura said of playing alongside James. “But I think in the future, I’ll start thinking about how crazy this whole thing was. Almost like in a dream, you know.”
The way LeBron is playing they are probably rethinking on how they will resign him. He is showing that he still has it so far. If Rockets lose they should make a coaching change.
Lakers now have truly wealthy ownership, they really should just re-sign everyone and be the most expensive team in the league next year. Save the draft picks and position themselves for a talent consolidation trade if the right star shakes loose.
Lakers have enough money to bring back most of the team. They need to be careful and not over pay Reeves. I wouldn’t pay him more than $35 million a year
They would lose Ayton in that scenario Jacob
He’s most likely outplayed his next years salary in a weak C market-
If they did use bird rights they could re-up everyone except him and wouldn’t have access to the Mle to give Ayton a raise to 15 , probably not even the tax payer MLE either to find a different C …..
IF they wouldn’t have given Ayton a player option and he was locked in I agree tho, this route would probably be better than going into cap even tho the masses (see below) would still be wanting to shed LBJ for “cap crap”
Rockets have a bunch of trash can type players. Sengun is a pretender and Durant is Durant. Amen is their star and just can’t carry the offensive load. They are good enough not to be a contender….no man’s land.
They don’t need Bron. They need his cap space. They can bring in three good players for that. One a starter.
That’s not how cap space works, its unfortunately a lot more complex than that
54 mill thats simple. Lakers have 106 mill on books next yr.
link to hoopshype.com
Simple for a simple fella maybe
lol. It is! Cap crunching requires an actuarial!
You want to tell us all Kuminga. How well you know him.
Kuminga — 28 mins, 21 pts, a steal to seal game.
I’m a Warriors fan but it was cool watching Lebron play last night. What a game !
I would’ve never thought Lakers would outplay the Nuggets in R1. Luka going to be back for OKC’s sweep of them?
Goodwin isn’t a nba caliber player……
When the books say you have 106 mill next yr. Or is Hoopshype lying.