Steve Kerr said he 'regrets' his latest incident with Draymond Green and that the Golden State Warriors are a 'fading dynasty.'
In a cathartic media session on Wednesday, Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr said he “regrets” his latest incident with Draymond Green and that the Warriors are a “fading dynasty.”
Green left the bench after a heated argument with Kerr during a timeout in the third quarter of Monday’s game against the Orlando Magic.
Green later returned to sit on the bench for the remainder of the game, which ended with the Warriors winning 120-97 to bring them back to .500 (15-15).
“Monday night was not my finest hour, and that was a time I needed to be calm in the huddle, and so I regret my actions in that exchange, and I apologize to Dray,” Kerr told reporters Wednesday. “He apologized to me. We both apologized to the team. You know these things, they happen, especially when you get two incredibly competitive people like Dray and me. So over the 12 years we’ve been together, this has happened occasionally, and I’m not proud of it.”
For the season, Green has 72 made field goals, 75 turnovers and 80 personal fouls.
Asked by Shaquille O’Neal on “Inside the NBA” Thursday if he felt it was wrong to leave the bench, Green said, “No, Shaq, and be that Steve and I have had those moments, I felt like I knew a better way to handle it. I just thought it was very heated and it wasn’t going to change and so I thought it was best for me to get myself out of the moment, allow things to go down...
“We weren’t hitting shots but we were playing a great game, and I didn’t want one thing to become two, so let that moment happen, remove myself. We have a good enough team to...win the game, which we did, and I thought that was the best thing to do instead of sitting in that moment, it continues to fester, things continue to build, all of a sudden things are said that you can’t come back from tomorrow and so that was a huge moment of growth for me, and not just standing there, sitting there arguing with Steve....”
Addressing the team’s overall state on Wednesday, Kerr said: “You know, we are no longer the [20]17 Warriors, dominating the league. We are a fading dynasty. We know that, everybody knows that. So what is up to us? How do we carry ourselves night to night, how connected are we? And can we give ourselves another swing at the plate.”
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