Warriors see the in -season in Jimmy Butler's addition of Jimmy Butler as a big step for the next season

San Francisco (AP) – The Golden State Warriors go to the low season after a playoff outcome in the second round after he had largely increased the squad for 2025-26.

A trade in the temporary season for Jimmy Butler triggered an increase in the late season, which bore the warriors on a successful run, which came to an abrupt end after Star Stephen Curry's injured armpit skin had led to four defeats in a row against Minnesota.

The hope for Golden State is now that a full season with Butler, alongside Curry and Draymond Green, will give coach Steve Kerr the core he needs to take part in the Ultra-Tough western conference.

“I think we added a big jump to add Jimmy Butler,” said General Manager Mike Dunleavy on Friday. “This time last year I was probably concerned about our ability to have a type no.

The addition of Butler from Miami had a direct impact on the warriors. They were 25-26 when he made his debut in February and the team achieved a total of 27:8 record in the regular season, the game tournament and playoffs when both butler and curry were in the line-up.

The warriors who believed that they could bring another title to the run before Curry under a win 1 against the Timberwolves with a thigh injury.

Golden State then lost the next four games and could not expand the series long enough so that Curry returned because the team lacked enough options on the offensive without the best player.

“He is our sun. This is the solar system, it is our sun. You won't duplicate Steph soon,” said Kerr. “So every lecture has to change our offensive system, for me it is a bit ridiculous. … It is as if what we have done is incredibly powerful. Steph is again one of the greatest players of all time, at the peak of his power, I think, or very close to it. We will continue what we do.

The big questions in this offseason are the squad around the big three stars, the greatest unknown is the status of Jonathan Kuminga.

Kuminga had a promising start to the season before getting out the ankle injury for 31 games. The team added Butler during his absence, and Kuminga fought to return to the playoffs and only play economically – if at all – in the playoffs before Curry was injured.

Kuminga scored an average of 24.3 points in the last four games and showed the ability that could make him an attractive goal for other teams if he becomes a restricted free agent this summer.

The Warriors have the right to achieve an offer sheet that he signs, but they could decide to search for and act and use Kuminga as a chip to fill other holes with players that better match curry, butler and green. Kerr described Kuminga's situation late in the season as “Square Peg, Round Hole”.

“All in all, he is a guy who has a lot of talent and a lot of ability,” said Kerr. “Still grows and still raw in many ways, but a lot of things we have to find out is roster construction and the combination. Basketball is always a five-man game, and combinations were difficult. They were simple.”

The other great need for the Warriors is to give more shooters on the ground and more size in the entire line -up in order to be better against larger Perimeter players, and to have a greater defensive presence that enables Green to play with strikers than in the middle, as he did late in the season.

“I don't want to start with Draymond as our start 5 next season,” said Kerr. “I think it is feasible in the last 30 games as we did this year, but they see the tribute that he leads to him. He also talked about it.”