Steve Kerr reveals Warriors All-Star Draymond Green has done things he can 'never forgive him for'

Golden State Warriors All-Star guardant Draymond Green is rather the polarizing hoops player, and his caput coach, Steve Kerr, tin attest to that implicit their years unneurotic successful the Bay Area.

Kerr and Green person gotten into their spats implicit the years, but 4 NBA titles unneurotic has besides been the result.

During a recent, in-depth interrogation with The New Yorker, Kerr admitted that Green has pushed him to his limits. And portion helium would "do thing for him," Kerr besides admitted that Green has crossed the enactment to the constituent of nary return.

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Draymond Green reacts with caput manager Steve Kerr aft being ejected during the last moments of an NBA play-in tourney crippled against the Phoenix Suns astatine Mortgage Matchup Center successful Phoenix, Ariz., connected April 17, 2026. The Suns defeated the Warriors 111-96. (Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

"There’s things he’s done that I tin ne'er forgive him for, and yet I volition bash thing for him," Kerr said to the outlet.

It’s nary concealed that Kerr and Green person needed to beryllium separated, whether it’s during a crippled oregon successful a much backstage setting. In December 2025, Green was seen telling Kerr, "F--- you," yet starring to the prima guardant getting sent to the locker country successful a crippled against the Orlando Magic.

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"Yeah. I mean, radical pulling america apart. And successful my archetypal 5 years, we would get into 3 knockdown, dragouts a year," Kerr said astir him and Green. "Part of it was, I conscionable had to amusement the remainder of the squad that I’m successful charge. You person to bash things by a acceptable of standards. It’s a assemblage that you’re building, not conscionable a squad -- a small nine with values and standards and expectations. And past you’re a assemblage that has to constabulary itself. The manager has to request definite behaviors, definite habits. So past for a agelong clip we had a truce. I understood him truthful well. He understood me. But this year, we had a large blowout successful December."

Kerr called Green "such a unsocial person" who has rather the caput for basketball. He’s needed it to play his presumption astatine lone 6-foot-6, erstwhile forwards are usually overmuch taller elsewhere successful the league.

As Green, 36, is person to status than helium isn’t, coaching has been a speculation. He was usually not successful that authorities of mind, but successful caller discussion, Green seems unfastened to the imaginable of coaching aft his playing days.

Kerr isn’t sure, though, if he’s temperament is acceptable for it.

"I don’t cognize that he’ll coach. He decidedly has the encephalon for it. I don’t cognize if helium has the patience," Kerr explained. "He’s an incredibly passionate, affectional guy, and that passionateness and vigor has often gotten him successful trouble. And I emotion him. I deliberation he’s a truly good-hearted idiosyncratic with an unthinkable brain, but if helium wants to coach, he’s going to person to larn however to power immoderate of that emotion, that desire, and that occurrence that burns wrong him, and it’s not an casual happening to do."

Draymond Green and caput manager Steve Kerr of the Golden State Warriors respond during the 4th fourth against the Atlanta Hawks astatine State Farm Arena successful Atlanta, Ga., connected March 21, 2026. (Paras Griffin/Getty Images)

Green isn’t the astir talented NBA players successful presumption of carnal stature, velocity oregon strength. But Green knows however tenacious helium tin beryllium arsenic a defender, making the All-Defensive NBA squad 9 times successful his career, portion winning the 2016-17 Defensive Player of the Year Award.

In fact, Kerr, who played with the iconic Chicago Bulls dynasty during his clip connected the hardwood, said Green is the champion defender he’s ever witnessed successful the league.

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"That’s saying a lot, fixed that I played with Scottie Pippen and Dennis Rodman," Kerr added. "The modern crippled demands truthful overmuch much than it did successful the 1990s. You person to beryllium capable to defender each 5 positions, due to the fact that there’s truthful overmuch gait and vigor and crossmatches. You contention backmost connected defense, you’ve got to defender the feline successful beforehand of you. And past there’s the "pick-on" game: the opposing squad is going to bring the weakest defender into each pick-and-roll to summation an advantage.

"Draymond, helium tin defender immoderate action, immoderate position, immoderate player. And helium tin besides stroke up the play down the play if he’s not progressive successful the enactment due to the fact that of his brain, his speed, his reach."

It’s 1 of those rollercoaster relationships, but 1 that Kerr volition ne'er regret with Green – adjacent if he’s crossed the enactment a clip oregon two.

Draymond Green talks to caput manager Steve Kerr aft receiving a method foul successful the 4th fourth against the Sacramento Kings during the NBA In-Season Tournament crippled astatine Golden 1 Center successful Sacramento, Calif., connected Nov. 28, 2023. (Lachlan Cunningham/Getty Images)

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While Green has a subordinate enactment for adjacent play with the Warriors, each eyes are connected Kerr arsenic helium mulls a large determination of whether helium wishes to instrumentality arsenic caput manager oregon not. He told the outlet it would beryllium an casual determination if Green and Steph Curry were to discontinue this year, but that’s not the case.

Kerr said the Warriors volition sermon their imaginativeness for the aboriginal successful the coming weeks, but he’s unsure close present if helium volition beryllium a portion of it.  

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