{"id":349793,"date":"2025-12-16T22:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T22:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/349793\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T22:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T22:23:08","slug":"steve-kerr-on-leaked-joe-lacob-email-were-all-frustrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/349793\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Kerr on leaked Joe Lacob email: ‘We’re all frustrated’"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN FRANCISCO — In the aftermath of a disappointing 136-131 Sunday night loss in Portland, Golden State Warriors<\/a> owner Joe Lacob had a brief email interaction with a fan that made its way to the public.<\/p>\n

The Warriors’ fan, Justin Dutari, sent Lacob a critical note minutes after the game, telling him that the team needs a “real second option,” that Jimmy Butler’s “tools are being underutilized” and blamed the lack of positional size on the roster.<\/p>\n

“I am so frustrated,” Dutari ended his email.<\/p>\n

Shortly after, Lacob sent back this response: “You can’t be as frustrated as me. I am working on it. It’s complicated. Style of play. Coaches desires regarding players. League trends. Jimmy is not the problem.”<\/p>\n

Dutari published the interaction on Reddit. The Warriors confirmed it was Lacob who sent the response.<\/p>\n

The back-and-forth, while brief, peeled back the curtain on the growing angst bubbling behind the scenes. The Warriors are 13-14 and stuck in eighth place in a crowded Western Conference despite loftier preseason expectations in the fading days of the Stephen Curry<\/a> era.<\/p>\n

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Lacob’s email put a particular spotlight on Warriors coach Steve Kerr, who has held firm to his unique offensive system built around the strengths of Curry and Draymond Green<\/a> throughout their 12 seasons (and four title runs) together, even if it conflicts with the ideal system for the younger layer of the roster.<\/p>\n

“Not a big deal,” Kerr said, acknowledging he’d seen the email. “Not concerned about anything like that.”<\/p>\n

Kerr is in the final season of his current contract and announced during training camp that he wasn’t seeking a contract extension, preferring to let the season play out before discussing his future with the franchise.<\/p>\n

Lacob and general manager Mike Dunleavy have continually voiced a firm level of support for Kerr. Curry and Dunleavy have both stated a desire to keep Kerr around past this season.<\/p>\n

“We’re all frustrated,” Kerr said. “Joe is frustrated. I’m frustrated. Steph and [Green], everybody’s frustrated. This is kind of how the league works. I hate when people are going to post private emails. Imagine if everyone’s emails were just publicly posted, how tough that would be to live our lives.<\/p>\n

“Joe supports me 100 percent. I support him. We have a great connection. We’ve had so much continuity here. Our stable environment in our organization is one of our strengths.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO — In the aftermath of a disappointing 136-131 Sunday night loss in Portland, Golden State Warriors…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-349793","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}