But why though.

Spo is still a great coach, isn’t that old, and doesn’t seem to have lost the locker room. The talent in Miami is terrible.

Do people really feel like moving on from him would help?

How good is Chris Quinn

Damn, Ainge and Riley really are eternal rivals, even down to their formerly young hotshot coaches replacing them when they get burnt out.

Do Heat fans actually want that? Spo is still one of the best coaches in the league

Who’s the other one, Ty Lue?

Almost like Sporlstra, Kerr and Donovan were the top 3 of the longest tenured coaches currently and 2 of them arent expected back to their teams. But yeah, “comparing”

Billy Donovan has back to back ncaa championships and won nba coach of the year. While not great in Chicago, I think a decent argument can be made he was hamstrung by management/ownership being ass.

All Hall of Famers

That’s English, baby!

Yeah that’s a solid shout actually. A more behind the scenes role.

Don’t do that… Don’t give me (a lifelong, chronically depressed Bulls fan) hope…

^ or commentating, he was a commentator before taking the warriors job

Spurs too

Yeah nobody ever “used to have a bad back”. As a dubs I’d love to have him as an announcer, he probably has so many great stories to share plus his personal relationships with people in the league.

This was sorta my thought. Always think about it the stories regarding Phil Jackson and how the travel schedule exacerbated his back problems. Respect the commitment but man back especially lower back stuff is so random in when it can flare.

he’s made close to nine figures since becoming coach, and that’s ignoring his player contracts before that. i’m sure he’s set for life

Yeah Prime or NBC could toss cash at him to broadcast.

And he gets to sit down!

He was actually fun as a talking head, provided great insight and appreciates the history of the game. His team with C-Webb and McHale in TNT is underrated.

He made the “this is unbelievable, this is Jordanesque” call in LeBron’s breakout 48 pointer against Detroit. He’s definitely upper tier analyst amon the former players, I’d love to see him back there.

i want him to have an Open Court style podcast, dude was so elite on that show

Fuck, I’m old. I still remember talking heads on ESPN arguing on whether he has enough coaching experience to be a good coach when he was hired.

Honestly if he wanted to go back to being a FO guy, there’s no better project for him to resurrect than his former team.

There’s so saving til Reinsdorf dies.

I think it’s less his back and more being tired of Joe Lacob’s BS these last few years

It’s not at all his back. He already got the surgery he needed and he’s been fine physically or else he would’ve called it quits or gotten more medical work done years ago.

He’s just extremely burnt out. Whether or not Steph continues playing, Kerrs his own person

i highly doubt Kerr pays attention to the perennially online people who get mad at him for Podz. he even said he’s been off social media for years

I don’t think he pays attention to the chatter in general. And more importantly, Kuminga is already gone – so it’s not like he’ll have to deal with that headache any more if he kept coaching.

I actually feel like our squad isn’t in a terrible place if everyone recovers from their injuries. Steph/Moody/Butler/Dray/KP is a kinda nice squad. So I think this decision more of comes down to how Kerr is feeling personally from both a mental and physical standpoint.

I was going to say the 2 timelines might have worked out if they hadn’t wasted a pick on Wiseman. But man, that draft really was a mixed bag. They weren’t going to take another point guard with Melo, and there really aren’t many difference makers in that top 10…

Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t think anything we did in the last few years was egregious. Sometimes, stuff just doesn’t work out.

The two timelines clowning is overblown to me bc if Wiseman had actually hit, he would’ve been a great piece for THIS timeline too, as a standout big on a rookie contract. No scout thought he’d bust as badly as he did, and size has continually been our biggest need.

And, in terms of finding Steph a co-star, we made a valiant effort in getting Butler, but injuries killed both of our seasons with him. Fully healthy, our squad was pretty good this year tbh (Curry/Moody/Butler/Dray/KP), one that could’ve gone toe-to-toe with anyone in the West but the Thunder/Spurs.

Between missing on draft picks, and injuries, it just hasn’t worked out. But I feel like the team tried. Sometimes stuff just doesn’t work out.

Why would you speak such evil?!?!

You stay. I go. No following.

Steve Kerr to Wardell Curry, June 2026

that certainly is not most likely lol

Isn’t the popular belief that the Florida coach gets the nod because Lacob likes him.

Ok fine.

Welcome back, Mark Jackson