In just 764 games, Kerr achieved his 500th victory. Throughout his ten seasons as the Warriors’ coach, he had an amazing regular-season winning percentage of.654.
In addition to improving Golden State’s record to 27-26 for the 2023–24 NBA season, Thursday’s victory gave the Warriors a 2.5 game lead over the Jazz for the No. 10 seed in the Western Conference, which is the last place in the Play-In Tournament.
“Actually, we’d like to be exempt from the tax, and we believe that we have a way to do that,” Lacob stated in reference to Plan 1A. Not just under the second apron, that’s sort of the plan. I’ll explain why that’s significant: in order to remove this repeater item from our records, we actually need to be below the tax line for two of the next four years. We wish to avoid being cliches. It’s just so expensive; that’s not to say we wouldn’t do it if necessary, but you have to consider the drawbacks.
“I suppose there is a Plan 1B, and 1B is that we could go even farther and, if necessary, make significant adjustments. There will be significant changes if this team continues to deteriorate and finishes the season poorly. However, if things go really wrong, we may decide to turn around. That means that everything is up for grabs, and we need to be adaptable. All I can say is that we want to never be a lottery team. Being competitive and winning are the main objectives; winning championships or competing for championships is the ideal outcome, if it is feasible.
