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Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr has been making the usually mundane press conferences a little bit more interesting. Kerr is letting the media on some sort of a running gag in which he takes out different props to accompany him during interviews.
Kerr has played with a Rubik’s cube and tinkered with a slinky before in front of quote-hungry reporters. The latest? A deck of cards.
Prior to the Warriors home game against the Chicago Bulls on Friday, Kerr laid out his lineup plans for the game with Kevin Durant and Draymond Green both ruled out for the contest. After saying that Casspi and Jordan Bell will be taking over Durant’s and Green’s sports on the first five, respectively, Kerr shuffled a deck of cards while waiting for reporters to tweet out what he just said.
“As soon as you're down tweeting, we'll resume human contact. But in the meantime, stare at your phones, ignore me, I'm just practicing my shuffling.”
Steve Kerr is "shuffling" the lineup tonight. pic.twitter.com/7po5KDh603
— Warriors on NBCS (@NBCSWarriors) November 25, 2017
Kerr should’ve kept those cards and kept practicing his shuffle during the Chicago game, as he was barely needed by the Warriors in destroying their visitors. Even without Durant and Green, the Warriors won in blowout fashion, 143-94. Putting Casspi in the starting lineup barely affected the outcome, as the small forward scored just six points in 25 minutes, but Bell was another story. The former Oregon Duck flourished in his first career start. While Bell scored just seven points, he was a force on the defensive end, recording two steals and six blocks.
The Warriors take on the Sacramento Kings on the road this Saturday, and who knows, Kerr might play with a fidget spinner this time around.
