Steve Kerr and his Golden State Warriors will not be one of the 22 NBA teams returning to play this season following the league's coronavirus-forced hiatus.

While the Warriors and seven other franchises are eliminated from competition, the next issue raised is how to keep their players active as they look at a nine-month layover between the mid-March suspension and the start of the 2020-21 NBA season by December. One proposal was convening the eight eliminated teams together to play pick-up scrimmage games in the summer, possibly televising them, while the other 22 teams play official games.

According to Kerr though, Golden State is not interested in participating in this idea.

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“We’re not interested in a summer league,” Steve Kerr told the press, via USA Today's Mark Medina. “We would be maybe if there was a formal version of it after the draft like the normal summer league where we could partner with a few teams nearby and have a few games with our young players and rookies.”

Kerr and the Warriors finished with the worst record in the NBA in 2019-20 — one year removed from their fifth consecutive Finals appearance. Injuries to major players like Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson doomed the season, but the silver lining will be adding a talented young member to the franchise at the NBA Draft, moved to Oct. 2020 (with the lottery set for Aug. 25).

Between now and the start of next season, however, will be a long wait for Warriors players to sit around without organized ball. With that said, the Dubs will have to figure out a way to compete in the long term while other franchises are duking it out in the playoffs.