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The Golden State Warriors may be looking at some big changes this summer, and all of it could start with head coach Steve Kerr. His future currently remains up in the air as he decides what he steps he wants to take for his future, and his decision will have significant domino effects.
In a recent interview with the New Yorker, Kerr said he and Draymond Green got into it in December in what was called a, “major blowout.”
“For a long time, we had a truce,” Kerr told The New Yorker. “I understood him so well. He understood me. But this year, we had a major blowout in December. He’s such a unique person. There are things he’s done that I can never forgive him for, and yet I will do anything for him.”
The comments came as a bit of a surprise despite knowing what a little about what Green and Kerr’s relationship has been like. Draymond took to his podcast on Wednesday afternoon to discuss Kerr’s comments and give his take on the December exchange.
“When you’ve spent 14 years with someone, when you’ve had the runs that we’ve had, playing the role that I’ve had to play and being who I’ve had to be, some things like that are gonna happen,” Green said. “Everything hasn’t just been one way, you know? It hasn’t just been like, oh man, Draymond did this, Steve’s mad. I don’t take that any way at all. Speaking of this December thing, I spoke to him after that and it was like, I don’t think you like me. I don’t think you’ve ever liked me, if I’m honest. Like, he cried. Like, really?”
Steve Kerr has coached the Golden State Warriors for the last 12 years, putting together a 604-353 regular season record and a 104-48 playoff record. He’s also won four NBA Championships in that span and fell short in the NBA Finals twice.
Going through that many battles builds a relationship that is borderline unbreakable.
“What he’s meant to me in my life, what he’s taught me in my life, just telling them in our exit interview, the things that he’s taught me about being a winner, I’m not sure where else I could have got that,” Draymond Green added. “I played for Tom Izzo, and Steve just took that to a completely different level, and especially showing me things about this level and winning, like I could never repay him for that. It’s so important to who I’ve become.
“As much as he’s done for me in basketball, a part of me think he’s hindered me in my career and what I could have become. When KD came from 2016 on, I have not had a play in our playbook. Not a single play that we run for me in our playbook. This is 2016. But if you’re going to take one gripe and not be able to move past it for all the other things, then you’re shallow as a person. That says more about you as a person than it does about Steve or whoever else in that instant. You gotta take the good with the bad, man.”
Steve Kerr is said to currently be deciding between returning to coach the Golden State Warriors or enter retirement after coaching the Warriors for 12 years.
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