Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr had no issues having a little pre-All Star Game fun, telling reporters to “get the f*** out of my way” as he made his way through the scrum for his postgame questions after a 22-point loss to the Portland Trail Blazers:
“I was just shocked that it was called a flagrant foul,” said Kerr of the review of Draymond Green's hard foul on Zach Collins, which was upgraded to a Flagrant 1. “I'm not sure how it's determined. I don't know if it's determined in New York or by the officials on the floor — that was head-scratching that it could be called a flagrant foul. The guy is going to go in for the dunk, you got to make sure he doesn't dunk it, so I told Kenny [Mauer] that I begged to differ.”
Steve Kerr jokingly told reporters to “get the f—- out of my way” on way to his presser and then explained what set him off about that flagrant call pic.twitter.com/S7QSvA6x7k
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Kerr was visibly rabid in response to the call, immediately heading out to chief referee Kenny Mauer and soon spiking his clipboard onto the hardwood, clear grounds for an immediate ejection.
Some had viewed this as a way to keep Green from a technical foul, as he had been eyeing Mauer right after the foul, clearly upset with some of the calls made throughout the game:
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Asked if his clipboard spike was better than the time he broke a clipboard in half, Kerr had this to say:
“I don't know, I'm gonna have to ask [former refereee Mark] Yoder if the clipboard broke when I three it down, but I got a little anger out, so that was good.”
The Warriors dropped to 41-16 with the loss.
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