Dub Hub: Steve Kerr envisions an ‘amicable’ ending to his Warriors tenure

Rounding up all Warriors and NBA related news for Friday, May 17th.

In today’s Dub Hub:

• Steve Kerr discusses his future with the Warriors in an interview with NBC Bay Area’s Raj Mathai
• Bleacher Report proposes a hypothetical Warriors trade for Cavaliers’ center Jarrett Allen
• Anthony Edwards and the Timberwolves make good on their promise to force Game 7 vs. the Nuggets

Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr has had a legendary career during his time in the Bay Area. During his 10-year run as coach of the team, he’s won four NBA championships and appeared in six total NBA Finals, among numerous achievements on his resume. However, with the dynasty slowing coming to an end, Kerr discussed his future with the team during an interview with NBC Bay Area, envisioning that his tenure will finish with a peaceful “parting of the ways”.

Earlier this season, Kerr signed a two-year contract extension making him the highest paid coach in NBA history. The length of his deal conveniently aligns with the contracts of several core players — namely his superstar pupil, Stephen Curry — potentially marking the franchise’s first opportunity to reset for the post-Steph era.

For more on this and other news around the NBA, here is our latest news round-up for Friday, May 17th:

Warriors News:

Steve Kerr talks future with Warriors, Golden State Valkyries | NBC Bay Area

The opening ceremony for the Paris Olympics is fast approaching.

Warriors Head Coach Steve Kerr will be leading Team USA Men’s Basketball team in Paris this July.

But after the Olympics, how long will Kerr be leading the Golden State Warriors?

NBC Bay Area’s Raj Mathai spoke with Kerr about his future with the Warriors and WNBA’s new Bay Area team, the Golden State Valkyries.

Love him or not, irresistible Draymond is winning at game called life | NBC Sports Bay Area

“We won over 60 percent of the games he played in this year,” Dunleavy said. “So, you know how meaningful he is to winning. And he’ll continue to do so.

“As far as the other stuff, part of it I think is managing him, Steph and Klay (Thompson) as they age. These are long seasons. These guys have been through a lot. We’ve got to manage the emotional, the mental, the physical stress, and the fatigue these guys take on. And that will be a part of the process moving forward.

“But I think Draymond, I think he’s in a great place mentally, just evaluating him, observing him over the season, after the suspension. I think he’s learned from it, I think he’s better, and we’ll continue to work on that stuff and have it on top of mind.”

Are Celtics on easiest NBA Finals path ever? + Lakers coaching update, Steve Kerr’s anniversary | The Athletic

There are a lot of Warriors fans on social media who want to see Kerr fired. They don’t like the offense (Kevin Durant probably agrees). They don’t like the rotations (some of that is on him, some of that is roster construction). They don’t like his management of many young players on the roster (admittedly, the Jonathan Kuminga stuff has been weird). That said, though, there are still just five coaches in league history with more titles than Kerr has. He also signed an extension through the 2025-26 season, so he’s likely here to stay.

His stint has been one of the most fascinating case studies in on-court success versus online perception because, at times, there’s validity to both sides. Regardless, Kerr has been on a historic run of coaching success thanks to his elite stars and great coaching staff. Congratulations on 10 years with the Warriors. Fans will still try to fire you tomorrow.

Warriors’ Hypothetical Blockbuster Trades to Shake up NBA Offseason | Bleacher Report

The Warriors didn’t have a top-shelf paint presence this past season. Trading for Jarrett Allen would be a huge step toward correcting that deficiency.

Allen is about as active as anyone on the interior. This marked the third time in four seasons he averaged at least 10 rebounds and a block while shooting 60-plus percent from the field. Just four other players have cleared those marks in any of the past four campaigns, and only Rudy Gobert (four) and Clint Capela (two) have done so more than once, per StatHead Basketball.

Allen is an expert rim-runner, sort of a bigger, longer version of what Golden State hopes Trayce Jackson-Davis could become. Allen can lock down the paint but also move quickly enough to chase players off of the perimeter. On offense, he crushes everything around the rim and adds value away from it as a solid screen-setter.

He isn’t quite a tier-one star, but that means he shouldn’t carry a tier-one trade cost. He isn’t worth giving up Jonathan Kuminga to get, but the Dubs might need a couple of firsts and Moses Moody (plus salary-filler) to pry Allen loose.

Game 6 Klay Changed the NBA Forever | Bleacher Report

NBA News:

Why the Timberwolves’ pregame film session, music and all, was the Nuggets’ downfall in Game 6 | The Athletic

But when the Timberwolves got ready to take the Target Center floor for an elimination Game 6 on Thursday night, with those three consecutive losses on their minds and concerns about their confidence in their hearts, they were all pleasantly surprised by the multimedia presentation that was waiting for them inside the team’s locker room less than a half hour before tipoff. On the big screen in the middle of the circular room, the coaching staff featured a short film of highlights from those first two games of the series where Minnesota had Denver on the ropes.

The notion of replaying video of previous performances is hardly new to NBA circles, of course, but the Timberwolves players themselves say this was significantly different. The integration of music as a backdrop to the clips was new, with Chicago-born rapper G Herbo among those featured. Those sounds, they said, had a way of striking up the emotions.

NBC’s NBA Nostalgia Play | The Ringer

I think part of pining for the NBA on NBC is also a longing for a different moment in media time. At the dawn of the ’90s, the heart of TV was still on the networks. As Costas noted in a recent interview, the mass audiences of Cheers and Seinfeld and Friends saw ads for the NBA.

In the streaming age, the old network days don’t just seem simpler. They feel unified. A Sunday tripleheader lured viewers to watch a bunch of stars who had, not unimportantly, been built up by network TV’s monoculture since college. The content in front of us was so alluring, so singular in a Game of the Week kind of way, that we didn’t know what we were missing. Bringing back the NBA on NBC won’t bring back the network days. But it does remind us of how we once watched basketball. Da-da-da-da-da-DA-da-da…

76ers’ guard Tyrese Maxey wins the 2023-24 NBA Sportsmanship Award

In case you missed it at Golden State of Mind:

Mid-May Warriors mailbag

As for Wiggins, I’m of the pessimistic believe that the Dubs would be just as good if Moody had all his minutes. I hope I’m wrong about that, because he has so much potential and s so easy to root for ... and for a brief period this late winter/early spring, it looked like he was returning to form. But I saw enough over the course of the season to conclude that the worst player I would trade for Wiggins is any non-problematic player who allows Golden State to shed the salary from that contract.

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