Steve Kerr isn’t the first coach you’d expect to drop a few f-bombs in a postgame press conference, but that’s exactly what he did tonight after the Warriors took care of the Rockets 104-99 at Oracle Arena, taking a 3-2 series lead in the process.
Kerr set it up as a quote of Liverpool’s Jurgen Klopp, who profanely praised his own team after their astounding 4-0 Champions League win over Barcelona, and TNT brought it live to the nation.
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“I apologize to my mom, who is probably watching. Our guys are fucking giants. That was an unbelievable victory tonight.”
It really was, considering the Warriors lost Kevin Durant to a leg injury in the second half, which many Twitter sports medicine experts immediately speculated was a ruptured Achilles tendon, a mass diagnosis that wasn’t correct according to the Warriors, who announced Durant had suffered a calf strain.
Kevin Durant (right calf strain) will not return to tonight's game.
— Warriors PR (@WarriorsPR) May 9, 2019
Later, Draymond Green fouled out, which is more typical but still a hindrance. That left Steph and Klay out there, and they did manage to take care of business down the stretch, aided by a series of Houston bumbles and James Harden committing a disappearing act down the stretch.
I can’t believe that last play with the Klay layup.
Harden entered the 4th with 7:08 left to play, he took one shot, the layup with :18 seconds left.
— Russillo (@ryenarussillo) May 9, 2019
The Inside the NBA crew wasn’t shaken up by the Kerr f-bomb barrage, noting it was after 1:30 AM on the east coast, so anyone who would be offended was probably in bed already anyway. And if Kerr’s mom wasn’t in bed: he really is sorry.
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