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Draymond Green returned to the “Inside the NBA” set on Wednesday evening, trading barbs with Charles Barkley and prognosticating on the league writ large.
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The biggest twist, though, was Green flipping his position on whether he thinks Steve Kerr will return to coach Green and the Warriors next season.
“I think and hope he’s coming back,” Green said of the man who has led his Warriors over the last 12 years. “What I do know is he wants to coach. So, if he wants to coach, I think he comes back.”
Previously, Green had said that he felt his hug with Kerr and Steph Curry following the Warriors’ play-in tournament loss to the Phoenix Suns provided finality to their run together with Golden State.
“It felt like that was it,” he said April 20 on his podcast, specifying that was just his opinion.
The reversal came hours after Kerr was seen at Oracle Park during the Giants’ 5-1 loss to the San Diego Padres, taking in a little afternoon baseball just down the block from Chase Center. Kerr was subjected to the Giants’ fifth game since last Tuesday of zero or one run, while the discussion on ‘Inside’ included a reassessment of Green’s comments on the Warriors’ offense.
On his podcast last week, Green suggested that Kerr had “hindered” his career by limiting his offensive role with the Warriors. On the ESPN airwaves, he said that comment was blown out of proportion and taken out of the context of his praise of Kerr as a coach and a man.
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Green also mixed it up with Barkley, a longtime subject of Warriors fans’ ire because of his status as a holdout against the early Curry-Green-Klay Thompson Golden State teams’ viability as a true contender, citing their reliance on jumpshooting.
It’s over for the Warriors,” Barkley said. “No disrespect; it is for every old team. You have your run, you get old. Y’all let Klay (Thompson) go, you and Steph on the backside of y’all careers. It just passed you by.”
Green acknowledged the Warriors’ trio had hugged in Phoenix “for a reason,” presumably to acknowledge that if this was the end, they had shared a remarkable four-championship run together.
The Warriors’ former defensive player of the year got one more barb in after Barkley said “nobody wins (a title) when you’re 37, 38.”
“I think the goal is just to not look like you in a Houston Rockets uniform,” Green retorted, referencing the final four years of Barkley’s career when he averaged 16.5 points and 12.2 rebounds between the ages of 33 and 36.
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This story was originally published May 6, 2026 at 9:31 PM.