"One of my favorite stories is Tex turning to Phil after Michael [Jordan] took several shots in a row and Tex turns to him and goes, 'Ah, Phil, get him out of there! Get Kerr in there for him,'" Kerr recalled in a phone interview with NBA.com. "I thought that was the greatest thing ever. I was lucky to be in the league and here's Tex, the offense isn't being run correctly, so he wants Phil to take the greatest player ever out of the game and put me in.
"But that's Tex. It didn't matter who was involved, he wanted things executed correctly. He believed there was a right way and a wrong way and it didn't matter who you were."