After losing their top two assistant coaches, Stephen Curry’s Golden State Warriors are looking to “remake” their coaching staff and “refresh” their roster around the aging four-time NBA champion.
The latest intel from Warriors insider Anthony Slater elicited a mixture of excitement and frustration from the NBA world, with some contending that the franchise waited too long to maximize Curry’s twilight.
Warriors’ Plan to Reconstruct Team Around Stephen Curry Sparks Division
On Thursday, Slater reported that Golden State’s lead assistants, Terry Stotts and Jerry Stackhouse, won’t be returning for the 2026-27 season despite Steve Kerr’s two-year commitment to remain head coach.
In the closing of his ESPN piece, the insider hinted that big changes could be coming for the Warriors after missing the playoffs for the second time in three seasons and stumbling to an injury-plagued 37-45 finish.
“Management voiced the need for changes in conversations with Kerr after the season. In the next two months, during the NBA’s transaction season, the Warriors are expected to refresh the roster around Steph Curry, along with remaking the coaching staff under Kerr,” Slater wrote.
While Golden State is far removed from its late 2010s dominance and its resurgence in the early 2020s, it still possesses one of the league’s premier guard talents in Curry.
However, with a glaring lack of size and athleticism around the two-time MVP and with its top complementary scorer, Jimmy Butler III, recovering from a season-ending right ACL tear suffered on Jan. 19, the Warriors face an uphill battle returning to title contention.
Curry (38), Butler (36), and Draymond Green (36) are all approaching 40 as well, with very little young talent on the roster, leaving the NBA community largely skeptical about their outlook.
“[Victor Wembanyama] and [Shai Gilgeous-Alexander] arrived already … I like Curry, but this is way too late unless they stack like the 2016 Warriors,” one user asserted.
Wemby and SGA arrived already… I like Curry, but this is way too late unless they stack like the 2016 Warriors.
— Uno 🥡 (@YoIAmUno) May 15, 2026
“This has to be rage bait at this point. They aren’t doing sh*t cause this will require trading draft picks, and they don’t do that,” another blasted Golden State.
This has to be rage bait at this point. They arent doing shit cause this will require trading draft picks and they dont do that
— CurryFor3 (@StephPresident) May 15, 2026
“Y’all wasted 6 years of Steph’s prime.🤦🏾♂️” a Warriors supporter vented.
Y’all wasted 6 years of Steph’s prime.🤦🏾♂️#DubNation pic.twitter.com/ZB7rBfwmDq
— Deaareon Morris (@deaareon544) May 15, 2026
Still, some held out hope for Golden State to cobble together another championship-caliber roster around Curry.
“Curry deserves one more run with real pieces around him. Roster refresh signals urgency. Window is narrowing. Execution this offseason defines his final chapter,” one observer opined.
Curry deserves one more run with real pieces around him. Roster refresh signals urgency. Window is narrowing. Execution this offseason defines his final chapter.
— Smitec (@MiTechComm25) May 15, 2026
“No more Stotts and Stackhouse, but some hope in the last paragraph,” another reacted to Slater’s report.
No more Stotts and Stackhouse but some hope in the last paragraph:
“In the next two months, during the NBA’s transaction season, it is anticipated that the Warriors will refresh the roster around Steph Curry and reconstruct the coaching staff under Kerr.” https://t.co/NN46AeHXzb pic.twitter.com/I68EZr77AL
— aly ✶ (@jinthirty) May 15, 2026
“Golden State clearly knows the Curry window is too important to waste with small moves only,” one more weighed in.
Golden State clearly knows the Curry window is too important to waste with small moves only
— TWO EDGED (@two_edged) May 15, 2026
Dub Nation will now be holding its collective breath as it waits to see how Warriors general manager Mike Dunleavy Jr. and the rest of the front office can get creative in their offseason retooling effort.
