Former NBA coach Doc Rivers explains to NBC Sports Bay Area's Monte Poole why the 'older' Warriors team can still compete for a title in 2026-27.
On “Dubs Talk,” NBC Sports Bay Area’s Monte Poole talks with longtime NBA coach Doc Rivers at the American Century Championship in South Lake Tahoe.
The Warriors ended the 2025-26 NBA season as the league's oldest team at 29 years, 199 days on April 12, per SportRadar. After the team re-signed Al Horford and Kristaps Porziņģis , along with their likely re-signing of Draymond Green paired with the potential to land LeBron James , that designation likely will remain true when next season starts.
Add that to the 36-year-old Jimmy Butler and 38-year-old Steph Curry, the “unc” label given to Golden State is fitting. But NBA title-winning coach Doc Rivers doesn’t necessarily think the Warriors’ age is a bad thing.
“I think, yeah, they’re older players but the whole team’s not old,” Rivers told NBC Sports Bay Area’s Monte Poole at the American Century Championship. “And I think if you mix with the right guys. ” Rivers says he believes having the veteran presence on the team paired with younger talent – for the Warriors, names like Yaxel Lendeborg, Moses Moody, Gui Santos and Brandin Podziemski – is the right recipe to winning a title.
“I thought when we won it in 2008, we had the perfect mix,” Rivers told Poole. “We had the old guys at the front of the team and then we actually had the really old guys at the back of the team and then we had the young guys in the middle. It was like a push-pull thing.
The old guys would just pull the young guys along, the young guys would push the old guys every day in practice and I think it’s a good mix and that’s what you have to have. ” The Warriors’ championship pedigree also shouldn’t be overlooked with Curry, Green and coach Steve Kerr already the proud owners of four NBA championships, Horford winning a title in 2024 with the Boston Celtics and Jimmy Butler, it’ll be interesting to see if the team can put together that same recipe that helped Rivers and the Celtics hoist the Larry O'Brien Trophy.
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