Warriors coach Steve Kerr takes ownership in sideline clash with Draymond Green

Golden State Warriors manager Steve Kerr addressed his heated speech with Draymond Green during a lengthy media league Wednesday.

Green near the squad seat country during a timeout successful the 3rd 4th of Golden State’s crippled against the Orlando Magic Monday and yet headed to the locker country to chill off. Kerr said that adjacent aft Green returned to the seat for the remainder of the game, helium was not going to play.

"We had it retired a small bit, and helium made his determination to spell backmost to the locker country to chill off, and that’s each I’m going to accidental astir it. Everything is private. I've got thing further to add," Kerr said astatine the time. Green had 9 points and 7 rebounds successful Monday’s 120-97 win. 

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Golden State Warriors guardant Draymond Green (23) walks toward the seat with caput manager Steve Kerr aft a play against the Memphis Grizzlies successful the 3rd 4th astatine the Chase Center successful San Francisco April 15, 2025. (Cary Edmondson/Imagn Images)

Kerr aboriginal shouldered blasted for his relation successful the blowup.

"Monday nighttime was not my finest hour, and that was a clip I needed to beryllium calm successful the huddle," Kerr said aft Wednesday’s signifier up of Golden State’s Christmas Day gathering with the Dallas Mavericks. "I regret my actions successful that exchange. I apologized to [Green]. He apologized to me. We some apologized to the team."

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Kerr added helium and Green are some competitory by nature, which tin astatine times pb to spirited moments.

"These things, they happen, particularly erstwhile you get 2 incredibly competitory radical similar Dray and me. So, implicit the 12 years we've been together, this has happened occasionally, and I'm not arrogant of it."

Golden State Warriors caput manager Steve Kerr during the archetypal fractional against the Orlando Magic Monday, Dec. 22, 2025, successful San Francisco. (AP Photo/Justine Willard)

Kerr and Green archetypal formed their concern erstwhile the erstwhile NBA subordinate was named caput manager of the Warriors. He continued to item the similarities helium shares with Green.

"We are acold much alike than anyone would ever realize. So, yeah, this is not wholly uncommon. I would accidental this hasn't happened successful a fewer years, this benignant of a disagreement and a blowup, but successful our 12 years together, it's not the archetypal time. And we've always, ever recovered a mode to, not lone bounce back, but to marque strides arsenic a result."

Golden State Warriors caput manager Steve Kerr, left, looks connected arsenic guardant Draymond Green (23) talks with an authoritative during the archetypal fractional against the Houston Rockets astatine Toyota Center Dec. 11, 2024, successful Houston, Texas. (Troy Taormina/Imagn Images)

Kerr besides made a wide constituent astir Green's hoops legacy. 

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"My No. 1 goal, honestly, is for him to decorativeness his vocation arsenic a Warrior with america warring metaphorically — not virtually but warring and competing unneurotic — until we're some gone. And I judge that's going to happen. Because I judge successful Draymond, and I judge successful myself. And I judge successful everything we've built for 12 years."

The Warriors defeated the Mavericks connected Christmas Day to amended to 16-15 connected the season.

Fox News' Ryan Gaydos contributed to this report.

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