Even if this is the end of the line in the Bay Area for Steve Kerr, he deserves a ton of credit for what he’s done with the Golden State Warriors.
Notably, it all started when he took the reins from Mark Jackson, and a David Lee injury forced him to give Draymond Green a chance as a starter.
Green wound up holding onto that spot for more than a decade, becoming a likely Hall of Famer and a four-time NBA champion.
However, it hasn’t always been easy. Kerr and Green haven’t always seen eye-to-eye, to the point where Kerr recently admitted that, as much as he loves him and wants him around, he’ll never forgive him for some things.
Draymond Green holds no grudges toward Steve Kerr
Even so, Green believes that’s just something that comes with all the ups and downs of spending so much time together. While he also has some gripes about how he’s dealt with his career, Green is nothing but grateful to Kerr.
“As much as he’s done for me in basketball, a part of me think he’s hindered me in my career and what I could have become,” Green said on his podcast. “When KD came from 2016 on, I have not had a play in our playbook. Not a single play that we run for me in our playbook. This is 2016. But if you’re going to take one gripe and not be able to move past it for all the other things, then you’re shallow as a person. That says more about you as a person than it does about Steve or whoever else in that instant. You gotta take the good with the bad, man.”
Green has always had a hot temper. That has been his blessing and his curse, as it’s made him the heart and soul of the dynasty but has also gotten in his way when the team needed him the most.
For better or worse, perhaps his numbers could’ve been better, but Kerr helped him be just what the most dominant team in recent NBA history needed him to be.
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