It hasn’t been the best of seasons for the Golden State Warriors so far. They’re currently 8th in the West, with a 14-15 record, and they look far from a contender. The front office has to think of ways to make the best use of Steph Curry’s remaining years at the top, and that has obviously increased the pressure on Steve Kerr, who is in the final year of his contract. While there had been no update on his intention to carry on with the franchise, Kerr has now made a big commitment.

The Warriors head coach made it very clear that he is not going to leave Steph Curry. “I will never leave Steph Curry,” Kerr assured Zena Keita of The Athletic. Whether the team wants to continue with Kerr is another question.

The 60-year-old veteran coach has led the Warriors to 4 titles, with the most recent one coming in 2022. “…When I got here five years later [Curry] had already established himself as an All-Star. And my goal was just to help him get even better and win a championship. And we were able to do that in year one and win three more and form a partnership that I will be grateful for (for) my entire life because it goes way beyond how good he is as a basketball player,” Kerr added in the interview.

Furthermore, Kerr also admitted that despite Curry’s brilliance on the court, he is a bigger fan of who Steph is as a person. “He is one of the finest human beings I’ve ever been around in my life. And just to come to work every day and see Steph has made this job everything.”

Unfortunately, the chance of winning another championship may have already come to an end for the duo. The Dubs found some energy when they added Jimmy Butler last season at the trade deadline. They defeated the Houston Rockets in the first round of the playoffs before Steph Curry’s hamstring injury in the subsequent series against the Minnesota Timberwolves derailed their entire campaign.

This season hasn’t gone to plan for the team either. In fact, just a few days ago, fresh off the defeat against Portland, a frustrated Warriors fan wrote an email to the owner Joe Lacob highlighting several issues, starting from Jimmy Butler’s underutilization and the team’s need for positional size.

Steve Kerr downplayed Warriors owner Joe Lacob’s ‘frustrated’ e-mail

Funnily enough, Lacob replied to this fan, sharing that the frustration is mutual. The fans duly published the email on reddit and it went viral. Overall, in this back-and-forth, it is clear that the Dubs fanbase is blaming it on Steve Kerr, as some of his strategies have fallen flat this season. Even in Lacob’s reponse there’s a subtle hint that he is not happy with the coach’s decisions.

Moreover, Kerr looked extremely unbothered even after knowing all of this, as he believes frustration is very natural given the situation the Warriors are in this season. “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.” However, he was also not very happy about the fan posting the private email on social media.

Overall, Kerr has received criticism for underutilizing Butler, but he has not paid any heed to the outside noise and stuck to the offensive game that is built around Steph Curry and Draymond Green’s strengths. It is something that has worked for 12 seasons, even at the cost of affecting the development of younger players in the Warriors’ roster.

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Currently, the trio of Steph Curry, Draymond Green, and Jimmy Butler is all in their late thirties, and the chances of another Championship run with this core look extremely bleak. Nevertheless, if things end this season, then it has been a remarkable journey for Kerr and also for Curry and Green, who have been with him since the beginning.