Sources: Warriors’ brass meet with Kerr; will reconvene next week

Longtime Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr met with controlling proprietor Joe Lacob and common supervisor Mike Dunleavy for 2 hours on Monday, league sources informed ESPN, as the perimeters proceed to determine whether or not it’s the greatest path ahead for Kerr to proceed because the coach.

Either side described the assembly as productive, however there stays no decision almost two weeks after the Warriors’ season resulted in Phoenix. Kerr, Lacob and Dunleavy plan to reconvene subsequent week to proceed discussions, league sources stated.

Kerr will take a beforehand deliberate golf journey to shut out this week as these round him proceed to explain Kerr as torn about his personal facet of the selection.

“It is April,” one supply stated. “We needn’t rush.”

The calendar flips to Could within the coming days. The draft lottery, which is the primary notable offseason checkpoint, arrives on Could 10. The Warriors enter it within the eleventh slot, carrying a 9.4% probability of leaping up into the highest 4 and a 77.6% probability of sticking eleventh.

That lottery choose is a crucial software throughout the Warriors’ plan to rearrange the roster this upcoming summer time, which is a part of the equation in Kerr’s resolution whether or not to return.

At this stage of his life and profession — at 60 years previous, having simply wrapped his twelfth season in the identical position — there’s an agreed perception that Kerr nonetheless is sensible as the top coach main a agency playoff contender constructed round Steph Curry and Draymond Green, however not essentially the recent face of a reconstruction.

“I nonetheless love teaching, however I get it,” Kerr stated the evening the Warriors have been eradicated. “These jobs all have an expiration date. There’s a run that occurs, and when the run ends, typically it is time for brand new blood and new concepts.”

Group sources stay adamant that that is purely a “basketball resolution”, primarily based round Kerr’s want to maintain teaching, administration’s want for some offensive philosophy and staffing tweaks and whether or not there is a collective perception that the Warriors will have the ability to make the most of transaction season to higher beef up its roster to compete in a crowded convention.

Warriors administration has not began any sort of teaching search, league sources stated. That might solely start within the occasion that Kerr opts to depart.