Stephen Douglas Kerr was born on September 27,1965 and is a Lebanese-born American professional basketball coach and former player who is the head coach of the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association.
58 Facts About Steve Kerr
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Steve Kerr is known as one of the most accurate three-point shooters of all time, and one of the greatest coaches in NBA history.
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Steve Kerr is a nine-time NBA champion, having won five titles as a player as well as four with the Warriors as a head coach.
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Steve Kerr is the only NBA player to win four straight NBA titles after 1969.
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Steve Kerr has the highest career three-point field goal percentage in NBA history for any player with at least 250 three-pointers made.
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Steve Kerr holds the franchise single-season and career three-point field goal shooting percentage records for both the Bulls and the Cavaliers.
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Steve Kerr was a two-time first-team all-conference player in the Pac-10, and earned All-American honors as a senior in 1988.
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Steve Kerr became a minority owner of the Suns as part of the group led by Robert Sarver that purchased the team in 2004.
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Steve Kerr announced he was leaving the position in June 2010, but retained his minority share until 2014.
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In May 2014, Steve Kerr received his first head coaching job with the Golden State Warriors.
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Steve Kerr spent much of his childhood in Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries.
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Steve Kerr attended Cairo American College in Egypt, the American Community School in Beirut, Lebanon, and Palisades High School in Los Angeles, graduating in 1983.
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Malcolm Steve Kerr was killed by members of the Shia Lebanese militia called Islamic Jihad on the morning of January 18,1984, at the age of 52 while he was serving as president of the American University of Beirut.
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Steve Kerr was shot twice in the back of his head, by gunmen using suppressed handguns, in the hallway outside his office.
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Minimally recruited out of high school, Steve Kerr played basketball at the University of Arizona from 1983 to 1988.
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Steve Kerr graduated from the University of Arizona in 1988 with a Bachelor of General Studies, with emphasis on history, sociology and English.
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Steve Kerr was selected by the Phoenix Suns in the second round of the 1988 NBA draft.
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In 1989, Steve Kerr was traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers for draft consideration.
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In 1992, Steve Kerr was traded to the Orlando Magic for draft considerations.
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Steve Kerr won the Three-Point Contest at the 1997 NBA All-Star Weekend.
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In January 1999, Steve Kerr was acquired by the San Antonio Spurs in a sign-and-trade deal with the Bulls, whereby Chuck Person and a first-round pick in the 2000 NBA draft was sent to Chicago.
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Steve Kerr became the second player to win four straight NBA titles without being a part of the 1960s Boston Celtics dynasty, the other being Frank Saul, who won four straight with Rochester and Minneapolis from 1951 to 1954.
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Steve Kerr played in nearly every game the following year, which was his final season in the league.
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In Game Six of the 2003 Western Conference Finals against the Dallas Mavericks, Steve Kerr made four second-half three-pointers that helped eliminate Dallas.
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In 2003, Steve Kerr became a broadcast analyst for Turner Network Television, offering commentary alongside analyst Marv Albert.
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Steve Kerr has provided his voice for the in-game commentary of EA Sports video games NBA Live 06, NBA Live 07, NBA Live 08, NBA Live 09 and NBA Live 10 with Albert.
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Steve Kerr has provided his voice as a color analyst for NBA 2K12, NBA 2K13, NBA 2K14 and NBA 2K15.
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Steve Kerr's commentary appears during All-Star play in the seventh gen port of NBA 2K16.
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From 2011, Steve Kerr called the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship on Turner Sports and CBS, teaming up with lead broadcasters Jim Nantz and Clark Kellogg for the First Four and Final Four games, and with Albert in other rounds.
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Steve Kerr was a regular contributor to the website Grantland from 2011 until it closed in 2015.
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Steve Kerr became part of Suns management, acting as a consultant.
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On December 10,2008, Steve Kerr continued to remake the Suns roster by trading Boris Diaw, Raja Bell, and Sean Singletary to the Charlotte Bobcats in exchange for Jason Richardson, Jared Dudley, and the Bobcats' 2010 second-round draft pick, which was used to draft Gani Lawal of Georgia Tech.
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On June 25,2009, Steve Kerr traded O'Neal to the Cleveland Cavaliers for Ben Wallace, Sasha Pavlovic, a future second-round draft pick and cash.
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On June 30,2010, Steve Kerr left the Phoenix Suns as president of basketball operations and general manager as his contract ran out.
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Steve Kerr continued to own less than one percent of the Suns' organization until 2014, when he decided to coach the Golden State Warriors.
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On May 14,2014, Steve Kerr reached an agreement to become the head coach for the Golden State Warriors, succeeding Mark Jackson in a five year $25 million deal.
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Steve Kerr coached in the 2014 Summer League for the Warriors.
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On December 10,2014, Steve Kerr became the first NBA rookie head coach to win 21 of his first 23 games.
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Steve Kerr was named the head coach of the Western Conference team for the 2015 NBA All-Star Game after Golden State had the best record in the conference.
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Steve Kerr's strategy was lauded after Allen, Memphis' best wing defender but a poor jump-shooter, was benched and limited to 16 minutes after missing wide open shots.
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Steve Kerr said "I think it's ridiculous", when asked about getting all of Walton's wins.
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Steve Kerr became the first person in NBA history to be a part of 70-win teams as a player and head coach.
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On November 20,2016, the NBA announced that Steve Kerr had been fined $25,000 for public criticism of officiating during a radio interview with KNBR 680 on November 17.
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Steve Kerr missed time during the 2017 playoffs due to recurring back issues.
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Steve Kerr returned for the 2017 NBA Finals where he led the Warriors to victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers in five games.
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Steve Kerr is the fourth coach in NBA history to win two championships in his first three seasons of coaching.
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Steve Kerr won his third championship as a head coach when the Warriors defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 2018 NBA Finals in four games to give Steve Kerr his eighth championship of his career.
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Steve Kerr won his fourth championship as head coach, and his ninth overall.
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Steve Kerr has won 429 regular season games and 80 playoff games as head coach.
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Steve Kerr is first head coach in NBA history to lead his team to 67 or more wins in three consecutive seasons.
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Steve Kerr was named to the Top 15 Coaches in NBA History in 2022, when the league commemorated its 75th anniversary.
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Steve Kerr is a keen soccer fan and an avid supporter of Liverpool FC.
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Steve Kerr compared Trump's campaign performances and the crude responses of his supporters to the sensationalism of The Jerry Springer Show.
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Steve Kerr made clear his "disgust" with Trump's disrespectful public discourse and disappointment with Trump's leadership of the country.
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Steve Kerr has been a strong supporter of gun control, expressing criticism with the government's response to school shootings.
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On May 24,2022, during a press conference for Game 4 of the NBA's 2022 Western Conference Finals after that day's Robb Elementary School shooting in Texas where 19 children and two teachers were murdered by a gunman wielding semi-automatic weapons, Steve Kerr reiterated these points emotionally.
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Steve Kerr said, regarding the filibuster, that Republicans in the US Senate were "holding us hostage", by using it to prevent a vote on gun control legislation.
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Steve Kerr has voiced support for the Black Lives Matter movements across the United States, praising the efforts of peaceful protests and hopes that more people will take action to stand up to systemic racial injustice to black people.