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“I’m well aware that the reason I’m still here is because Steph Curry is still here,” Kerr said on a recent episode of the "Glue Guys Podcast." “And I’m not being modest, I’m just telling the truth. Gregg Popovich is one of my best friends and mentors, and every time we sit down for dinner, he holds up his wine glass and he says, 'Here's to Tim Duncan.' "And everyone toasts to Tim Duncan. I love it because it's genuine and he's basically telling us the only reason I -- and we -- are all here is because the lottery fell our way, we got Tim Duncan. Other people didn't. That's how I feel about Steph."

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Sam Amick: Steve Kerr is is somebody who uh has obviously at times been frustrated by the the limitations in Jonathan Kuminga’s game and and uh and it's it's pretty evident that the Warriors are willing to move on. The thing that they are trying to salvage here is that they really need that salary slot. You know, there's only so many ways for them to meaningfully add to this roster and try to continue the Steph-Draymond, now Jimmy Butler era and if Jonathan takes the qualifying offer then you're pretty limited when the February trade deadline comes around as far as like picking up real impact players. So, I mean, they're trying to thread the needle here and that's where it goes back to the staring contest.

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Kuminga would be a significant part of the Warriors' rotation to open next season, and they'd need his supplementary scoring on nights when Steph Curry, 37, or Jimmy Butler, 35, rest. That's something head coach Steve Kerr has voiced to Kuminga in recent weeks. Kerr has been one of the leading voices trying to patch this together, sources said.

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Anthony Slater: But Jonathan Kuminga also knows that Steve Kerr's history tells him he will go away from him in the playoffs at winning time in big games. And Jonathan Kuminga is no longer wanting to be a plan B, an alternative, a regular season option. He wants to be, you know, a full time featured guy in an offense. And as much as I think him and Kerr actually do generally get along personally.

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Looney, who signed a two-year free-agent contract with the New Orleans Pelicans last week, joined Marcus Thompson II on the "Warriors Plus/Minus" podcast and shared how he felt a bit slighted by some of Warriors coach Steve Kerr's rotation decisions, including the choice to play then-rookie Quinten Post over him, particularly in the playoffs. "I guess," Looney said when Thompson II asked him if Post was the final straw for him. "I wouldn't say it like that, but it was anybody but me it seemed like at this point. It wasn't no one moment. Even this year, probably the playoffs. We going up against Steven Adams. This is what I do. They're not really giving me the chance to really let me do what I do. "It's like, 'All right, y'all don't trust me? I thought y'all trusted me.' They put me at the end in Game 7, it's like why'd we have to wait for that point?"

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While Looney felt some type of way about Kerr's decisions, he knows it's not personal. "I just know it's never personal with Steve," Looney said. "He's going to do whatever is best to try to win. It ain't just me. He's done this to everybody. I might've been the one it was happening to the most because I was here the longest. I know it's not personal. He just wants to win. "You can't be mad because the results showed that. It usually worked. You talk about sacrifice and win, he's going to really test that sacrifice part."

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Marc Spears: I’m sure Jonathan Kuminga's in town um in Vegas supposed to meet with Steve Kerr and Mike Dunleavy Jr. and you know, try to figure it out and the Warriors hold all the cards. Yeah.  Sad to say for Kuminga, man, he just has no power in this. It's a bad market for restricted free agents. Has Cam Thomas signed yet? No. Has Josh Giddy signed yet? Nope. It's just not a good market. 

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Warriors head coach Steve Kerr sent a message to Kevon Looney via the team’s 'X' account, expressing his gratitude to the big man after the center’s signing with the New Orleans Pelicans became official. “Just want to say thank you,” Kerr started as he stood in front of greenery recording his farewell message to Looney. “This is a tough one. Ten years, it’s just been an amazing experience for me to coach you. “Just your professionalism, your dignity, your class, the way you handled yourself, the way you mentor your young teammates and, of course, the championship contributions you made year after year.”

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Kevon Looney: I had hip surgery before the season started, so I was out for a big chunk of that year, but I remember coming home from practices and talking with my folks, or friends back in Milwaukee and being like: “No joke, Steph … you don’t even understand. It’s insane. I’m pretty sure he’s the best player I’ve ever seen in my life.” We lost nine games all season. Nine. Total. For the entire regular season, 73–9. Like are you kidding me? Obviously I can’t take any credit at all for that excellence, but I can tell you that it was fun as hell to watch from up close. Steph and Klay and them, they like to say that I didn’t talk to anyone for the first six months. And I dispute that for sure. But I will admit that I only really started being myself after I saw Coach Kerr and Draymond screaming at each other during that game at OKC when Steph hit the half-court buzzer beater in OT.

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An eventual compromise and return to the Warriors also remains very much on the table, league sources said, considering the market dynamics at play. The two sides have talked about a sit-down in Las Vegas between Kuminga, Turner, general manager Mike Dunleavy and head coach Steve Kerr to discuss a possible path forward, if his situation remains unresolved in a week.

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Shams Charania: Mike Brown is a four-time champion as a top assistant in Golden State and San Antonio under Steve Kerr and Gregg Popovich and has coached an array of superstars across three decades coaching in the NBA. Most recently in 2022-23, Brown's Kings had the best-rated offense in the NBA.

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According to "Run Your Race" podcast host Theo Pinson, who played five seasons in the Association, teams usually come out of the dugout and do their warm-ups when there are 20 minutes left on the countdown to the game's tip-off; 15 minutes was already pushing it. According to "Run Your Race" podcast host Theo Pinson, who played five seasons in the Association, teams usually come out of the dugout and do their warm-ups when there are 20 minutes left on the countdown to the game's tip-off; 15 minutes was already pushing it. Boogie, though, claimed the Warriors would jog to the court and put up shots when there were only six minutes to go before the game started. "Man, it was so bad, bro," Cousins exclaimed. "Steve used to be like, 'Man, y'all are being disrespectful.' There were times we were going out there with like six minutes on the clock. Steve's like, 'Man, you guys got to show some type of respect.' We used to come like 10 on the clock, eight on the clock."

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"Steve's just like, 'Y'all got to do a better job,'" DeMarcus revealed. "And Steve not even, like, he's not even really tripping on the fact that we're going out there late because he knows we're showing up. We going to do, we coming out, we going to do our job every night." "It was just the look of it. And it's just like, this s—t getting a little disrespectful. Steph like, 'Guys, come on, man.' Like, it was crazy. It's insane, bro," the big man concluded.

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Kevin Durant: We still on this??? Obvious opportunity for Logan Murdock to gain even more attention and try too revive his career by using my name and the Warriors. The audience is SICK AND TIRED of the same bullshit narrative. Be better my man

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