New Steve Kerr Rumors Update HC's Future After Meeting with Warriors GM, Governor

Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr had his long-awaited meeting with team owner Joe Lacob and general manager Mike Dunleavy, but it sounds like his future remains uncertain.

According to ESPN's Shams Charania, Ramona Shelburne and Anthony Slater, Kerr met with the Warriors brass for two hours on Monday, but "there remains no resolution" regarding his future with the franchise, and sources said that the sides "plan to reconvene next week to continue discussions."

Kerr's contract with the Warriors expires at the end of this season. With Golden State already out of the playoffs, the team's most pressing matter is to figure out if he will return for a 13th season as head coach.

However, it sounds like neither side is in a rush to resolve the situation.

"It's April," one source told Charania, Shelburne and Slater. "We don't need to rush."

Charania, Shelburne and Slater reported that people around Kerr describe him as "torn about his own side of the choice." The 60-year-old recently spoke to Charles Bethea of The New Yorker and admitted that he's hesitant to part ways with Golden State because of his commitment to star players Stephen Curry and Draymond Green.

"I don't want to abandon those guys," Kerr said. "If Steph and Draymond were retiring this year, I think this would be an easy decision: we all go out together and the organization takes their new path. But it's not that easy because I think Steph's going to play another couple of years and I think we can still do some good things together. But these are all conversations that will happen in the next week or two and we'll figure it out. And whatever happens, it's going to end well. I know that, because it's too important not to."

Still, the Warriors are entering a crucial offseason in which they will try to revamp their roster to contend for a title next year. Golden State is slotted 11th in the NBA draft lottery and has a 9.4 percent chance of jumping up into the top four.

Charania, Shelburne and Slater noted that team sources "remain adamant that this is purely a 'basketball decision,' based around Kerr's desire to keep coaching, management's desire for some offensive philosophy and staffing tweaks and whether there's a collective belief that the Warriors will be able to utilize the transaction season to better beef up its roster to compete in a crowded conference." League sources added that "Warriors management has not started any type of coaching search" and will not do so unless Kerr opts to leave the team.