Trying out a new process, changing the identity of LetsGoWarriors, ha! 😜 Below are all the transcripts from 5/10/2025, pregame and postgame Game 3 Warriors-Timberwolves. The previous transcripts that were headlined with Steve Kerr’s Zoom call the day before Game 3, have now been unlocked.
All transcripts from Game 3 — Kerr, Jonathan Kuminga, Buddy Hield, Jimmy Butler and Anthony Edwards, Mike Conley and Julius Randle — are behind the paywall until I write the next article which will take the previous transcripts out of the paywall in that previous post.
As a bonus, I’ll be adding the 13-minute pregame with Kerr for free, i.e., not behind the paywall, later today Sun 5/11 — Happy Mother’s Day, everybody! So check back for that.
As for some quick revelations, Kuminga saying on the podium, “I think we could do something special here,” shows me there’s true belief behind those closed doors.
I feel like we are witnessing something that I’ve never seen done before: a team in the playoffs forced to change its identity on the fly, in the middle of a seven-game series.
As I said on the livestream, this reminds me of haphazardly cobbling a local rec league “all-star” team together last-minute to go play in a weekend tournament — something I did countless times as Commish of Dream League, in my previous life before I started LGW — but also without any scrimmages or opportunities to work the kinks out.
It’s damn near impossible to win this way, and yet Steve and Jimmy and Jonathan somehow only lost a Western Conference Semifinals game to a quality team, whose top two players shined, by 5 points — with Draymond Green playing, as my co-host Dean Chambers said, probably the worst playoff game Green has ever played.
Steve seems to think the Warriors are “really close, yeah, really,” so this is truly We Believe 2.0.
Like Buddy said, probably heavily influenced by one Wardell Stephen Curry behind closed doors, this is a “fun challenge”.
Sometimes where there’s a will, there’s a way.
And if they can pull this off, as I said on the livestream, even the most entitled of Curry stans need to finally give Kerr his flowers, similar to how the LeBron James stans had to give flowers to Steph for the 2022 title.
If they can pull this off, even the worst stand-up comedians who routinely throw players that they’re supposed to be rooting for under the bus, 280 characters at a time, need to finally come to grips that JK will get an offer of $30 million-ish per year come July.