{"id":304086,"date":"2026-05-07T10:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T10:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/304086\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T10:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T10:41:11","slug":"warriors-draymond-green-reverses-on-steve-kerr-thinks-hell-be-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/304086\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors\u2019 Draymond Green reverses on Steve Kerr, thinks he\u2019ll be back"},"content":{"rendered":"

Warriors forward Draymond Green,<\/a> appearing Wednesday on ESPN\u2019s \u201cInside the NBA,\u201d offered a new prediction for Kerr\u2019s future. Last week, on his podcast, Green said it \u201cfelt like the end\u201d for Kerr as Golden State\u2019s head coach.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But Green offered a different opinion when host Ernie Johnson asked whether he had any idea what\u00a0Kerr will do.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI think and hope he\u2019s coming back,\u201d Green said. \u201cI don\u2019t know more than anyone else in the world knows outside of \u2026 I do know, he wants to coach. So if he wants to coach, I think he comes back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kerr\u2019s contract expires this summer. A decision on whether he will return to the Warriors next season remains on hold, as Kerr meets with owner Joe Lacob and general manager Mike Dunleavy to discuss the team\u2019s direction.<\/p>\n

Johnson followed up Green\u2019s answer by asking him about other comments he made last week, when he suggested Kerr has \u201chindered\u201d his career on offense.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cNo. 1, people took a four-minute clip of me saying how great this guy has been to my career \u2014 how much he\u2019s taught me about winning, where I wouldn\u2019t be without him \u2014 they took 15 seconds where I said I think he hindered me from an offensive standpoint,\u201d Green said. \u201cI stand by that. That\u2019s my truth.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I think every basketball player in the world has some gripe that they wish their coach would have done. \u2026 I\u2019m not afraid to express my one gripe. But I also said all of the incredible things he\u2019s done, how much of a better man he\u2019s made me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Green, pinch-hitting for Shaquille O\u2019Neal on the show, also had some lively exchanges with Charles Barkley (no surprise). Barkley essentially said the Warriors are done as championship contenders, because \u201cnobody wins when they\u2019re 37 or 38.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stephen Curry is 38, Jimmy Butler turns 37 in September (and will miss at least half of next season recovering from his torn ACL) and Green is 36.<\/p>\n

Green responded to Barkley by referencing his sideline embrace with Kerr and Curry near the end of Golden State\u2019s season-ending loss to Phoenix on April 17.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had that hug for a reason,\u201d Green said. \u201cWe\u2019re not oblivious. This could be it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Soon thereafter, Green spoke of the twilight years of his career by saying to Barkley, \u201cI think the goal is to just not look like you in a Houston Rockets uniform.\u201d<\/p>\n

Barkley spent the final four seasons of his career with Houston. He retired at age 36 and, yes, he might have been a tad overweight toward the end.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As for Kerr, he spent much of Wednesday afternoon at Oracle Park. Kerr, an avid baseball fan\u00a0\u2014 and specifically Dodgers fan given his upbringing in Los Angeles\u00a0\u2014 watched the Giants fall 5-1 to San Diego.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warriors forward Draymond Green, appearing Wednesday on ESPN\u2019s \u201cInside the NBA,\u201d offered a new prediction for Kerr\u2019s future.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[14844,7000,101,103,102,104,106,105,127,17007,13340],"class_list":["post-304086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-draymond-green","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-sports","tag-steve-kerr","tag-warriors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}