Steve Kerr shrugs off leaked email from Warriors owner Joe Lacob

Joseph Dycus, Bay Area News Group on Dec 16, 2025

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SAN FRANCISCO — Warriors coach Steve Kerr is juggling an ever-changing rotation, a lineup that shifts nightly and injuries to key players.

An email from team owner Joe Lacob to a fan that made its way to social media? Not high on the longtime coach’s list of priorities.

“It’s not a big deal. I’m not concerned about anything like that,” Kerr said after the team’s practice at Chase Center on Tuesday.

Kerr was referring to an email Lacob sent to a frustrated fan a few minutes after Sunday’s loss in Portland, one that was posted on the popular social media platform Reddit.

The fan complained about, among other things, the team’s tactical deployment of Jimmy Butler at power forward.

“You can’t be as frustrated as me,” Lacob wrote the fan. “I am working on it. It’s complicated. Style of play. Coaches (sic) desires regarding players. League trends. Jimmy is not the problem.”

Kerr admitted that he was frustrated with the team’s 13-14 start, but added that his star players are too, noting “this is how the league works.”

He emphasized that he still has the full confidence of upper management after the team dropped back-to-back games against the Timberwolves and Trail Blazers.

“Joe supports me 100 percent and I support him,” Kerr said. “We have a great connection, and we have had so much continuity here, and our stable environment and organization is one of our strengths.”

That stability has not applied to the team’s roster of late.

The Warriors have trotted out nine different starting lineups over as many games. Pat Spencer, who started three times during that stretch, will miss Thursday’s matchup in Phoenix with an excused absence.

Kerr said he hopes to give “a good look” at last game’s starting five of Steph Curry, Butler, Draymond Green, Moses Moody and Quinten Post.

Moody, who has only started 14 times this year after being a starter to end last season, shared his thoughts on the difference between a stellar regular season finish last spring and this season’s sluggish start.

“It feels different,” Moody said. “These last couple of games, and there’s so many games this year we should have won. Coming down to the end like that, we’re not far off. One shot goes differently, and this is a whole different conversation. I think we’re able to realize that, and coach is able to realize that, so nobody is panicking.”

One area of late-game improvement was pinpointed by Brandin Podziemski, another younger perimeter player who went from everyday starter to primarily an off-the-bench option.

After holding three consecutive teams under 100 points on the road, the Warriors have given up over 125 in two straight losses.

“We didn’t get many stops last game, and neither did we (against) Minnesota,” Podziemski said. “That’s where it starts. If you don’t get stops, it makes it that much harder because you feel like you have to score, but if you get stops, you have that room for error.”