In a parallel universe, Warriors legend Steph Curry may have been a Phoenix Sun and Steve Kerr would have been the rationale why.
In a full circle second, Steve Kerr was really the overall supervisor of the Suns in 2009 and needed to safe one other Steve Nash-esque participant. Queue Steph Curry.
“I was the GM in Phoenix from 2007-10. We were looking at Steph Curry and seeing Steve Nash,” Kerr mentioned on Headliners with Rachel Nichols. “They were so alike in so many ways. We had watched Steve just become 2x MVP. So all the concerns that most of people in the league had about Steph in terms of size, defense, and athleticism, we saw everything we needed to see. Steve had just done so much in the league, and we thought he could be very similar. We tried to trade for him and thought we had a deal done the night before the draft. When he fell [to the seventh pick], our draft room erupted because we thought the deal was in place and Steph was going to be a Phoenix Sun. It didn’t happen, it fell through.”
Warriors followers, breathe a sigh of reduction.
When the deal fell by, the Warriors took Steph at seventh total within the draft.
Kerr and Curry teamed up in 2014 when he joined Golden State as the pinnacle coach.
The two of them have completed nice issues collectively and gained 4 championships collectively on the Warriors.
They have additionally loved Hall-of-Fame worthy careers of their time spent within the Bay, since Kerr has gained Coach of the Year and Curry has earned not one, however two MVP awards in his time.
Despite his age, Steph has been on hearth to begin the 2023-24 season and is at the moment averaging 29.1 factors, 5 rebounds and 4.7 assists on 47.6 taking pictures from the sector.
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