Golden State Warriors

Warriors GM Bob Myers details whether or not Steve Kerr will return in the playoffs

Published May. 5, 2017 11:34 p.m. ET

Andrew Lynch

The Golden State Warriors are without one of their most important members, head coach Steve Kerr, who's dealing with complications stemming from his back surgery during the summer of 2015.

Although the Warriors have acquitted themselves nicely without Kerr, going 4-0 under acting head coach Mike Brown, the team would love to have their coach back this postseason. On Friday, Golden State general manager Bob Myers revealed where Kerr is in his recovery and how the Warriors are approaching the next month or so.

Via Tim Kawakami of the Mercury News:

-Q: So have you prepared yourself or prepared your team for the idea that Mike will be your coach through the rest of this postseason?

-MYERS: We don’t know. We’re kind of going series by series on that. So that question we haven’t really hit head on or directly. We understand that’s a possibility, but as far as thinking like that, we haven’t gotten there.

Myers insisted Kerr could return still this postseason, but that the Warriors shouldn't rely on his coming back:

-MYERS: I said this to the team–we all have to kind of decide how process that part ourselves.

Because he still could–I don’t want to mislead people–but the possibility of him coming back still exists.

But that is different than relying on it. You can have that optimism, we all can have that hope. But reliance on it, I think, is something nobody’s doing at this point. Nor should they.