Across 82 games in about 7 months from October to April, 30 teams in the NBA battle each other to earn a spot in the playoffs and continue their quests to contend for a championship. By mid-April, 14 of those teams drop out and instead have to turn their attention to the offseason, dealing with the sudden shift from 3-to-5-game weeks to an abundance of rest and future decisions to make.

For the Warriors, this hasn't exactly been common over Steve Kerr's 12-year tenure at the helm, but it is the fourth time in the past 7 years that they have failed to make the playoffs. Even so, it isn't something that gets easier with repetition, and it's something the Warriors, as a team, have to contend with in the coming weeks.

After the Play-In loss to the Suns, Kerr opened up about the emotions of an NBA season and how it feels to now move into the offseason without that structure and familiarity.

"There's just a sense of finality that is surreal. You just go through a seven, eight-month grind. Game after game, you're traveling, you're with all these people who you love. It's so emotional to go through an entire season. So much happens, and we have so many people in there besides the players, like support staff, we're like family. We really are. The season ends, and it's just bizarre. All of a sudden, your entire existence changes and you're not convening every day, you're not fighting together, you're not trying to  climb to the top of the mountain. It's part of the beauty of sports and a season. One season is its own journey, and then all of a sudden, it's over. Strange feeling, but very, very grateful to these guys this year for all they've been through, the way they continue to compete and play together. It was special to watch."

Of course, this summer has the added layer of potentially coming to an end for Kerr much sooner than previous years if he and the front office do not decide to sign a new contract, but it's still clear that the trials and tribulations of an NBA season is jarring, especially in a situation like this where it came down to one single game that the Warriors could not emerge victorious in.

Kerr's resume is about as stacked as it gets in the NBA. Of course, he's been a legendary coach for 12 years with the Warriors and earned a ton of accolades, but he was also an extremely successful player.

Playing alongside the second half of the '90s Chicago Bulls dynasty and the beginning of the 2000s San Antonio Spurs dynasty, Kerr racked up five championship rings, tied for the 14th-most in NBA history. He also holds the all-time career record for highest three-point percentage among qualified players, more than an entire percentage point higher than second-place Luke Kennard.

However, Kerr shared that one of his lone takeaways from his success as both a player and a coach has been that he's in the right places at the right times.

"The only thing I've learned is that I'm the luckiest guy in NBA's history. I've played with Jordan, Pippen, Duncan, and David Robinson. Played for Phil Jackson and Pop and Lenny Wilkens and Lute Olson. I've been incredibly blessed. Then to come here and inherit this team and coach Steph Curry, who is undoubtedly the greatest face of a franchise that I've ever seen in any sport. He just lets me coach him, and he wants to be coached. He's just an incredible partner and collaborator. The only thing I've learned is that I'm really blessed."