After a lifetime steeped in basketball as a fan, player and coach, Steve Kerr is embracing the “mystique” of the Boston Celtics as he leads the Golden State Warriors into the NBA finals on Thursday.
Klay Thompson of the Golden State Warriors warms up in front of general manager Bob Myers and head coach Steve Kerr during media day prior to the start of the NBA Finals at Chase Center on June 01, 2022 in San Francisco, California.
On Thursday, Kerr will face off against the Celtics for the first time in what is his 11th trip to the NBA Finals. Kerr was a witness to one of the most notorious moments in NBA Finals history, when Boston’s Kevin McHale flattened the Lakers’ Kurt Rambis with a brutal clothesline foul in game four of the 1984 series.
“Some of my favorite memories as a player were playing in Boston Garden. I remember starting a game early in my career — we had a couple guys injured — and going out to half court and bumping fists. Larry Bird actually said, ‘Good luck, Steve.’ Thompson, whose father Mychal was a member of the Showtime Lakers, was in the crowd at the Staples Center in 2010 when a Kobe Bryant-inspired Los Angeles defeated the Celtics in game seven of the Finals.“Life comes full circle, now being able to play them in the Finals,” Thompson said. “I was watching them in college, Game 7, at Staples, with my dad in 2010, and now it’s 12 years later, and I get to play the team that I was rooting against. It’s amazing.
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