Should The San Antonio Spurs Pursue Steve Kerr As Their Head Coach Next Year?

Steve Kerr’s time with the Golden State Warriors may be coming to an end.

Kerr is set to coach the Warriors for the 2025–26 season, but beyond that, the 60-year-old mentor’s future is murky. During a recent media availability, Kerr acknowledged the uncertainty of his situation in the Bay Area.

“Hopefully, I’m here for another few years. But I think it makes sense for the organization and for me just to see where this thing is at the end of the year,” Kerr told reporters. “I don’t anticipate any negotiation during the season.”

There was no melodrama in Kerr’s quotes. No passive-aggressive comments, no subtle digs at his current employer. With all due respect to the well-oiled machine of the Warriors organization, that sounds like a perfect fit for another team. 

If Kerr is interested at the end of the season, perhaps he should consider the no-nonsense, meticulously managed organization known as the San Antonio Spurs.

NBA insider Kevin O’Connor floated this idea on Wednesday, and on multiple levels, it makes perfect sense.

For starters, Kerr spent four of his last five seasons as an NBA player in San Antonio. Fresh off winning a three-peat in Chicago alongside Michael Jordan, the three-point specialist landed with the 1999 Spurs squad that defeated the New York Knicks in the NBA Finals.

Then, as Kerr embarked on what would be his final playoff run, he played a pivotal role in the Spurs’ conquest of the Dallas Mavericks in the 2003 Western Conference Finals. Kerr then closed out his NBA career as a five-time NBA champion when the Spurs defeated the New Jersey Nets in the championship round.

Throughout his time in San Antonio, Kerr soaked in the wisdom of the venerable Gregg Popovich, whose influence can be seen in the highly disciplined offense that Kerr has instilled in the Warriors over the past decade. The beauty of both ball movement and man movement executed by Stephen Curry and Draymond Green saw its precedent in the sets run by Tony Parker and Tim Duncan in the early 2000s.

Is it possible, then, that Kerr would part ways with a team that he has led to four NBA championships? At this point, Kerr himself doesn’t appear to have the answer to that question. But, if the Kerr-to-San Antonio scenario does play out, the growth of youngsters like Victor Wembanyama and Dylan Harper would be in good hands.