At long last, the Golden State Warriors' 2025-26 season has come to an end. Despite their best efforts, including a thrilling win in their first Play-In game on Wednesday against the Clippers, the Dubs' of injuries finally caught up with them.

With Kristaps Porzingis hampered by an ankle injury and Steph Curry visibly limping at multiple points due to his lingering knee injury, the Warriors could never get it going against the Phoenix Suns on Friday night.

After taking the first lead of the game with an opening layup by Draymond Green, the Suns rattled off a 13-0 run and never relinquished the lead. The Warriors mounted some runs to cut the lead to under five a few separate times, but just didn't have enough in the tank, eventually losing 111-96.

After the game, Steve Kerr took some time to reflect on the Warriors' season and give his thoughts, even despite the disappointing finish.

"I enjoyed it. Believe it or not. I love coaching, I love being with all the staff and the players. I love being in the fight, having a quest, having the daily ritual of trying to figure something out. It's really beautiful, it's really fun to be part of that. Despite the injuries, despite the adversity, despite the struggles, I still enjoyed it. I enjoyed every day. Things didn't go our way, obviously, and that's part of it, too. Some years go your way, some years don't. This year didn't."

Finishing the regular season with a 37-45 record and going 1-1 in the Play-In surely was not on the table at the beginning of the season, but it's how the cookie crumbles. It marks the end of Kerr's 12th season as the head coach, and thus his 12th season with the two franchise legends, Curry and Green.

Unfortunately for the Warriors, it wasn't their best effort in what ended up being the final game of their season.

They shot just 44.6% from the field and 33.3% from three-point range. In addition to the poor shooting, they turned the ball over 20 times, leading to a whopping 30 points for the Suns, which was just too much to overcome for the Warriors.

In the first quarter, the Warriors scored just 15 points. To find the last time they scored that few points in a quarter in an elimination game, you have to go back to 10 years ago to the fourth quarter of the fateful Game 7 of the NBA Finals, where the Warriors fell to the Cavaliers to blow a 3-1 series lead.

In this game, it was just rough sledding all around. Only four Warriors even cracked the 10-point mark — Brandin Podziemski, De'Anthony Melton, Curry, and Porzingis — but it was extremely tough for the latter two, who were very visibly hobbled on the court.

Curry shot just 4-16 from the field and 3-10 from beyond the arc, a far cry from his all-time best averages in Play-In games, and though Porzingis was efficient, shooting 3-5 from the field for 11 points, he could only manage 15 minutes of play and did not see the court after the midway point of the third quarter.

Podziemski led the team in scoring with 20 points, making it a double-double with 10 rebounds, but on the other side, Jalen Green's 36 points on 70% shooting marked a big win for the Suns and personal revenge for Green on the team that ended his season last year with the Rockets.

Now, the Warriors' attention turns to the offseason. A few players require new contracts, but more focus will perhaps be on any potential newcomers to Golden State this summer.