PHOENIX — The last embrace. The last three Warriors dynastic figures left standing. The last words. The last moment.

Wait, did the Warriors — surprise, shock, and holy moly — just have their last dance without telling anybody it was about it happen?

After years and years of fending off the end, did everything just get wrapped up right before our eyes?

When Steve Kerr pulled Stephen Curry and Draymond out of the game in final minutes of their season-ending 111-96 play-in loss to the Suns on Friday, then held them in a triple hug and barked out some pure emotion, it sure was the last something.

And the tremors from that moment shook everybody who has had anything to do with the Warriors dynasty.

“He said, I don’t know what’s going to happen, but if it is the last time, I just want to share this moment,’” Curry recalled later.

“That was kind of a jolt of a message.” Pause. “But he left the door open [to return].”

It’s been no secret that Kerr went into this season happy to be coming to the end of his contract — that he wasn’t sure he wanted to coach this team next season, that he didn’t know if Joe Lacob and Mike Dunleavy really wanted him to, and that maybe he really wasn’t the right guy, anyway.

But on Friday, the situation transformed from an existential thought into a very tangible possibility as those seconds ticked down. Because Kerr clearly was getting himself ready for it. And he wanted to help get Curry and Draymond — and the entire Warriors universe — ready for it, too.

And if Kerr isn’t the Warriors’ coach next season, that surely wouldn’t be the only major change. That would be the end of the way the Warriors have played for 12 seasons. That could be the end of Draymond’s tenure, Jimmy Butler’s stay, and so much more.

“I don’t know what’s going to happen,” Kerr said at his bracing postgame session. “I still love coaching, but I get it. These jobs all have an expiration date.

“There’s a run that happens, and when the run ends, sometimes it’s time for new blood and new ideas, and all that. If that’s the case, then I will be just nothing but grateful for the most amazing opportunity any person could have, to coach this franchise, in front of our fans in the Bay, to coach Steph Curry, to coach Dray. The whole group.

Kerr said he wants to take a few days to gather his thoughts, then he’ll meet with Lacob and Dunleavy and the three of them will come to an understanding about what comes next.

Maybe this is some negotiating poker by a four-time champion coach. Lacob and Dunleavy have repeatedly said that they want Kerr back; maybe Kerr just wants to make sure he goes into the talks with as much leverage as possible.

But he also has to know that once a high-profile coach starts talking about the end, sometimes it just starts feeling inevitable. And maybe Kerr wanted to know what it feels like to think of himself as the imminent ex-coach of the Warriors — and of Wednesday’s soaring victory over the Clippers as the proper emotional climax.

Kerr pounded the podium talking about that win a few days ago, which, even then, he probably knew would lead to an exhausted performance on Friday — and against Phoenix, Curry shot 4-for-16, Kristaps Porzingis struggled on a wobbly ankle, and Draymond had much less zip in his legs.

At the time on Wednesday night, it seemed like Kerr was feeling something he’d never want to give up. But really, his buoyant reaction could’ve been his way of saying goodbye to the best of what this has been.

“That game the other night will go down as one of my favorite games we’ve ever played,” Kerr said. “I don’t care what anybody says, play-in game, whatever.”

I asked him: Can you possibly walk away from Curry?

“That’s part of the equation, right?” Kerr said. “I mean, I don’t want to walk away from Steph. I’m definitely not going into coaching somewhere else next year, you know, in the NBA. … I would never walk away from Steph. But all this stuff has to be aligned and right.”

There’s no doubt that Kerr has been worn down by the past few years since the 2022 championship — the roster changes, the failures to build up the talent around Curry, the difficulties developing younger players, and this season’s crushing injuries to Butler, Moses Moody, and Curry’s long absence due to a knee injury.

It might even more wearing next season, and every other season into the future. The glory days are over. The reset has already sort of started to happen. Maybe Kerr’s lived through as much of this as he wants to.

It was also telling that Curry didn’t take this moment to push for Kerr’s return or even to say that he couldn’t imagine the Warriors without him.

“I want Coach to be happy,” Curry said. “I want him to be excited about the job. I want him to believe he’s the right guy for the job. I want him to have an opportunity to enjoy what he does. So whatever that means for him. Everybody’s plan is their own. I’m not going [to] tell anybody what to do.

“He knows how I feel about him. That shouldn’t even need to be said. But however it goes, you’re thankful for what we’ve been able to accomplish over this run, thankful for an opportunity hopefully to put together again to do it next year.

“I just want Coach to be able to look at the situation as a whole and feel like he’s the right guy.”

As both Kerr and Curry said, there’s still the live chance that Kerr, Lacob, and Dunleavy will come to an agreement in the coming days and that he’ll be back next season.

But there will be other changes, Curry suggested. The Warriors probably have to make some systemic adjustments.

They likely need to open up their idea of what kind of player works best next to Curry — and nobody in the organization has been stricter about that than Kerr. He’s been right almost every time, but that was with Curry and Draymond in their primes and other stars on board.

Will Kerr want to be the guy coaching through these kinds of adjustments?

“Your spirit has to be in it,” Curry said. “Your mind has to be in it. The coaching staff. Every dynamic has to be on that journey with you. Only he can answer that.”

Kerr was giving us a partial answer on Friday. It’s not the final answer. He gave himself the opening for different options. I still think it might be 50-50 or something close. But the mood of this moment was not hard to decipher. Once these kinds of steps are taken, they’re hard to retrace backwards.

If this the last dance of the Warriors dynasty, it happened very slow at first. Then all at once on Friday night.