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Kerr

speaks on HALF

Warriors’

offseason,

hope for AMAZIN’

the future

By TIM REYNOLDS
AP Basketball Writer
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Golden
State coach Steve Kerr
knows that a new era of
Warriors basketball is about
to begin. He just doesn’t
know what that means yet.
It has been a rough sum-
mer for Kerr, whose roster
is wildly different following
the offseason departures
of Kevin Durant, Andre
Iguodala, DeMarcus Cous-
ins and Shaun Livingston —
all on the heels of the team
losing the NBA Finals to To-
ronto and Klay Thompson
tearing an ACL in the last
game of this past season.
He spoke of the summer
of tumult Monday, when
USA Basketball opened its
World Cup training camp.
“This summer was painful in
many ways, losing the guys
that we did,” said Kerr, a
USA Basketball assistant
this summer under coach
Gregg Popovich.
“But reassuring, in the
sense that we brought
back some key guys who
are going to help us kind of
get to that next era, what-
ever that looks like.”
The Warriors kept Thomp-
son, to no surprise, after a
five-year, $190 million con-
tract got finalized quickly in
free agency. Golden State
also reached an agree- Mets beat Marlins, reach
ment over the weekend to
retain Draymond Green on .500 for 1st time since May
a four-year, $100 million ex-
tension that kicks in for the
2020-21 season — a deal
that is a bargain to the New York Mets’ J.D. Davis (28) celebrates with Juan
Warriors, especially since Lagares after hitting a home run in the seventh inning of
Green could have com- the second game of a baseball doubleheader against
manded much more had
he waited until next sum- the Miami Marlins, Monday, Aug. 5, 2019, in New York.
mer. Associated Press
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