SAN FRANCISCO- Steve Kerr is giving it another go with Golden State.

Kerr has reached an agreement, in principle, on a two-year contract to continue coaching the Warriors, according to a person with knowledge of the negotiations. Kerr is still yet to sign the new deal, the person told reporters on Saturday night, speaking on condition of anonymity because the contract is yet to be finalized.

The Warriors missed the playoffs for the second time in three years, earning the 10th seed in the Western Conference and eventually losing to Phoenix in the play-in tournament.

Kerr's 12-year coaching run with the franchise has featured four championships and six NBA Finals appearances, including five straight from 2015-19. Kerr shared an embrace with Stephen Curry and Draymond Green near the end of the loss in Phoenix, saying afterward he knew it could be their final time together.

He has a career record of 604-353 and a 104-48 playoffs mark, with Golden State winning its last championship in 2022.

The Warriors were 37-45 this season while dealing with numerous injuries, including losing Jimmy Butler to a season-ending right knee injury in January and Curry's 27-game absence with a right knee injury of his own.

ESPN was first to report Kerr's new contract.

Kerr, 60, got his first coaching job in 2014-15 and immediately guided Golden State to the franchise's first title in 40 years. The Warriors would then begin the next season with a record 24-0 start under the guidance of assistant Luke Walton, as Kerr missed the initial 43 games as his team went on to a record 73 victories. Kerr took a leave of absence to recover from debilitating complications following two back surgeries, then missed time again in 2017, with Mike Brown filling in as Kerr underwent a procedure to deal with a spinal fluid leak.

Green had predicted on his podcast once the season ended that Kerr wouldn't return.

Throughout his coaching career, Kerr has used his platform to speak out against gun violence and social injustice, among other prominent issues. His father, Malcolm, president of the American University of Beirut, was murdered in Lebanon when Kerr, 18 at the time, was a freshman at the University of Arizona.

In March 2018, Kerr took part in the Oakland March for Our Lives. Earlier that same month, he joined Democratic Congressmen Ro Khanna and Mike Thompson — then-chair of the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force -and students from across the South Bay during a town hall at Newark Memorial High School to discuss gun violence in schools, and cheered the efforts of youth nationwide.

Kerr has said it isn't hard to do double duty as a basketball coach and use his voice as a public figure for those who don't have one.

"I think, in some ways, the balance is presented to us, given what's happening around the country," Kerr said. "I know that when I played, players and coaches were never — maybe not never, but rarely — asked about politics and voting."