Nicholas Kerr seeking a second-year leap as Warriors’ G League coach

Nicholas Kerr seeking a second-year leap as Warriors’ G League coach originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area

Everything changed for the NBA, and the world at large, on March 11, 2020. The Warriors that morning decided they’d play their home game against the Brooklyn Nets scheduled for March 12th without any fans at Chase Center after San Francisco Mayor London Breed banned gatherings of over 1,000 people. Then that same night, Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert tested positive for COVID-19.

An hour later it was announced the 2019-20 NBA season would be suspended for the foreseeable future. Vince Carter’s 22-year career run came to an end that night. A new chapter also began for Warriors coach Steve Kerr and son Nicholas, who at the time was an assistant on his father’s staff.

All three of Kerr’s kids – sons Nicholas and Matthew, and daughter Madeline – moved into Steve’s San Diego home with their significant others. The family lived together during the pandemic for about four months. Steve remembers a lot of memorable dinners and conversations he doesn’t get to always enjoy as the world pressed pause. It also was a time for he and Nicholas to prepare for the 2020 NBA Draft, grinding tape with the Warriors being rewarded the No. 2 overall pick in late August.

Nicholas now is entering his second season as the head coach of the Warriors’ G League affiliate in Santa Cruz, and though he spent three seasons in Golden State’s video department and rose as a player development coach, the isolation of the pandemic was the most the two have talked about basketball and coaching philosophy. They’re father and son first. Basketball always will come second.

But advice was given from a father seeing his ultra-nervous son about to step into a new reality and a larger spotlight ahead of his first game as a head coach. The moment could have been a time for Kerr to get deep, imparting some kind of spiritual wisdom. He could have been corny finding the right words straight from a Hollywood script. As he often does, Kerr chose sarcasm to loosen the anxiety of his son.

“That was probably the one time that he talked…

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Publish date : 2024-11-08 15:51:00

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