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Steve Kerr coaches his Warriors to fourth NBA Finals

By Shereen Rayan

HOUSTON, TX - MAY 28: Head coach Steve Kerr of the Golden State Warriors speaks to the media after their 101 to 92 iwn over the Houston Rockets in Game Seven of the Western Conference Finals of the 2018 NBA Playoffs at Toyota Center on May 28, 2018 in Houston, Texas. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Bob Levey/Getty Images)
HOUSTON, TX - MAY 28: Head coach Steve Kerr of the Golden State Warriors speaks to the media after their 101 to 92 iwn over the Houston Rockets in Game Seven of the Western Conference Finals of the 2018 NBA Playoffs at Toyota Center on May 28, 2018 in Houston, Texas. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Bob Levey/Getty Images) /
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Arizona Basketball legend Steve Kerr will coach his team, the 2018 Western Conference Champions in the finals for a third NBA Championship.

Steve Kerr did it again! He coached the Golden State Warriors to another victory in a game seven of the Western Conference Championships against the Houston Rockets on the road in Houston (101-92). The win will send Kerr and the Golden State Warriors to the 2018 NBA Finals for the fourth time under his guidance.

As the Head Coach of the Warriors, Kerr has racked up a bunch of accolades since his start in 2014.

  • 2017-18 Rudy Tomjanovich Award winner (NBA coach who cooperated with the media, referees, and fans, voted on by the Professional Basketball Writers Association)
  • Six-time Western Conference Coach of the Week
  • 2015-16 NBA Coach of the Year
  • Two-Time NBA All-Star Game head coach (2015, 2017)
  • Led the Warriors to four-straight Western Conference Championships
  • Led the Warriors to two NBA Championships (2014 and 2016), playing for a third
  • Has a win/loss record of 265-63 thus far (won 80.3% of the games he coached)
  • Has a playoff win/loss record of 59-20 (won 74.7% of the playoff games he coached)
  • NBA record 73-win season with Luke Walton
  • NBA record 16-1 postseason run
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We aren’t going to break down the entire game for you, but Houston owned the first quarter and most of the second quarter. The Rockets went into the locker room at halftime on a huge high ahead 54-46 when Eric Gordon, filling in for an injured Chris Paul, took an inbound pass and dribbled down the court making a layup at the buzzer.

But something went down in the locker room. According to Draymond Green, Kerr told them that being down 11 is really a two-minute turnaround in the game. That made sense to the team and Green mentioned that they never lost confidence in themselves. Steph Curry proved his point in the third quarter. He scored 14 points and the team scored 33 points finishing with 27 points. Compare that to Houston’s 15 points in the third quarter and you that was all she wrote. The Rockets never recovered.

The Andre Iguodala-less game seven of the WCC provided several entertaining moments, but there was one pre-game, one game time and one post-game incident worth noting. Before the game started, the Houston announcer took to the loudspeaker to introduce the Golden State Warriors line-up. He did it with, let us say, a lackluster, uninteresting tone of voice and it wasn’t lost on Kerr who wasn’t let off the hook from the announcer.

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In-game, Kerr took a page out of one of his mentor’s handbooks, his off-court interview with a reporter had Pops (Coach Popovich) written all over it.

The post-game incident worth noting did not involve a former Arizona Wildcat, just the opposite. Rockets star and former ASU Sun Devil James Harden did not stay after the game to shake hands and hug his adversaries. Instead, he tore off his jersey and marched into the locker room shirtless.

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If you want in on the joy some of the Warriors were feeling after the game, check out Jordan Bell, Quinn Cook, JaVale McGee or Nick Swaggy P Young’s Instagram. They sang Usher songs blissfully on their private jet and it will put a smile on your face. On to the finals! The Warriors will face LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers in the best of seven games.

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