2016-2017 NBA Playoffs is finally here..Spurs vs Dubs (0-4), Cavs vs Celtics(4-1)
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Idiot!!!
lot of bone headed decisions in that game.
That was some of the dumbest basketball I've ever seen towards the end. OKC doesn't deserve to win this series at all.
Whoever win this game win the series
C in 6
C in 6
Steve Kerr, not Kevin Durant, is Warriors’ biggest health concern
The head coach is not expected to return this series as the Warriors work to find out what is wrong
By Marcus Thompson II | mthomps2@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: April 22, 2017 at 11:39 pm | UPDATED: April 23, 2017 at 3:05 pm
PORTLAND — After scoring the Warriors’ last nine points, including a dagger 3-pointer, Stephen Curry walked off the court with the ball tucked under his arm. He had a game-high 34 points as the Warriors won 119-113, taking a 3-0 lead in the first-round, best-of-seven series against Portland. But the ball wasn’t for him. It was for Steve Kerr.
“We’ve got his back,” Curry said.
His sudden and mysterious absence from the Warriors bench, which came to light at shootaround on Saturday morning, didn’t come with much explanation. Vague descriptions like “illness” and “not feeling well,” are usually a sign something is wrong. In this case, according to sources, it is.
At the worst of this current illness, Kerr was in excruciating pain, according to the sources, and he could barely walk. It was scary because it wasn’t a feeling he’s had before.
The worst part, the Warriors don’t yet know what is going on. They had to say “illness” because there are no answers yet.
Kerr hasn’t felt well all series, according to people around him, and recently it became unbearable. It is unknown if these issues are even related to his past well-known health problems.
As competitive as Kerr is, we know this: it must be pretty bad if he is missing a playoff game. He is expected to miss the remainder of this Western Conference series.
“Oh no,” one source said about Kerr returning this series. “He thinks like a player does, wanting to get back. But he’s got to get right.”
Moving forward, the health of Kerr is the one to watch. Not Durant. Not guard Shaun Livingston or forward Matt Barnes, whose second straight missed game leaves the Warriors’ bench shorthanded.
The Warriors are loaded so they can survive in the early rounds without Kerr. They have the talent, the schemes and the rotations set. So lead assistant Mike Brown can hold the fort.
“He was the MVP,” Draymond Green said of Brown after the Warriors’ comeback win.
But over this long championship pursuit, pushing buttons will matter. Fighting against the adversities will matter. Motivating individual players, managing the roller coaster of emotions, will matter. And that is Kerr’s specialty, his responsibility.
His absence would be a big deal in the later rounds. Even though the Warriors have veterans with championship experience, removing his presence at this juncture is a significant change.
But Kerr’s health is a sensitive subject for the Warriors. They are acutely aware of how devastating his surgery-gone-wrong has been for his life and how admirably he’s fought through it.
Kerr missed the first 43 games of the 2015-16 season due to complications from back surgery. A spinal fluid leak left him with debilitating headaches and nausea, among other ailments. Even when he returned, he wasn’t 100 percent. His suffering was just manageable.
That’s why Brown is here. The Warriors selected a top assistant with head coaching experience, instead of another bright offensive mind such as Stephen Silas, presumably because of the potential for Kerr to miss time again.
Brown has not only coached a team to the NBA Finals, but he has experience with elite talent — having coached LeBron James and Kobe Bryant. But Brown, unlike Walton, didn’t get a training camp to establish his presence. He didn’t get regular season games to build critical rapport as head of the roster.
That was because Kerr survived the regular season. He missed one shootaround but was on the bench for all 82 games. And that’s why him missing a playoff game is a sign of how badly he is hurting.
Kerr had progressed enough to gameplan with Brown before tip-off Saturday. Knowing Kerr, he could get to a point where he can just tough it out. Then he will downplay it so as to divert the attention.
But will the Warriors want him to do that, knowing the truth about how much he is suffering? Will general manager Bob Myers be okay with his close friend coaching through the agony? Or will Myers, who is known for his humanistic perspective, care more about making sure Kerr gets healthy?
This situation surrounding Kerr feels a lot like Stephen Curry’s injury last year. The Warriors didn’t know how badly he was hurt, didn’t know when he would be back, didn’t know how he would look when he returned. The entire playoffs were clouded with the uncertainty surrounding Curry and his sprained right knee.
This year, suddenly, the questions surround Kerr. Like Curry, you know he’d give anything to be out there. So Kerr’s absence means the Warriors have bigger concerns than Durant.
http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/04/...in-durant-is-warriors-biggest-health-concern/
Steve Kerr is this year's Gary Kubiack.
Who is going to coach GS when he retires??
Who is going to coach GS when he retires??
Every coach in the league will tell their agent to call about that job
Mark Jackson
so we gotta act like Lebron aint did sh*t?
Should have never fired him to begin with.
Of course these niggas ain't gonna put no respeck on the Kang's name.
Really though. Pacers should be up 3-1.
Yo Jack this is my wife dude!?!?!?!
Stop lyin
Bron just being Bron
so... has this OKC/Houston series done much to clear up the MVP race so far?
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