Kerr signs NBA record extension
2-year, $35M
Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr signs an NBA record extension at two-years, $35 million, his agent told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
At $17.5 million per year, Kerr will be the highest-paid coach in NBA history.
The extension will take him through the 2025-26 season.
Steve Kerr declined to comment on his reported contract extension, which has been confirmed by multiple outlets. Ink isn’t dry yet.
He did say the feels “really good” about his future with the Warriors, which got some laughs in the press conference room.
— Danny Emerman (@DannyEmerman) February 24, 2024
Four Time Champion
Steve Kerr, 58, has been serving as the head coach of the Golden State Warriors since 2014. During his tenure, the team has won four championships and made six trips to the NBA Finals. Kerr led the Warriors to an NBA-record 73 wins in the 2015-16 season.
Kerr, who won five titles as a player during his 15-year career, also served as the general manager of the Phoenix Suns from 2007-2010.
A brief bio of Kerr
Kerr played college basketball for the Arizona Wildcats. He was a two-time first-team all-conference player in the Pac-12 and earned All-American honors as a senior in 1988. In the 1987–88 season, Kerr set the NCAA single-season three-point field goal percentage record (57.3%). Selected by the Phoenix Suns in the second round of the 1988 NBA draft, Kerr played 15 seasons in the NBA. He won five NBA championships as a player—three with the Chicago Bulls and two with the San Antonio Spurs—and retired as the all-time NBA leader in single-season three-point shooting percentage and career three-point shooting percentage.
After playing
Following his retirement as a player, Kerr became a minority owner of the Phoenix Suns as part of a group led by Robert Sarver that purchased the team in 2004. In June 2007, Phoenix named Kerr the team’s president of basketball operations and general manager. Kerr announced he was leaving the position in June 2010. After stepping down from his post with the Suns, Kerr worked as a color commentator for NBA on TNT until 2014.