Steve Kerr

Steve Kerr
Kerr in 2023
Golden State Warriors
PositionHead coach
LeagueNBA
Personal information
Born (1965-09-27) September 27, 1965 (age 59)
Beirut, Lebanon
NationalityAmerican
Listed height6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Listed weight180 lb (82 kg)
Career information
High schoolPalisades
(Pacific Palisades, California)
CollegeArizona (1983–1988)
NBA draft1988: 2nd round, 50th overall pick
Selected by the Phoenix Suns
Playing career1988–2003
PositionPoint guard
Number4, 5, 2, 25
Coaching career2014–present
Career history
As player:
1988–1989Phoenix Suns
19891992Cleveland Cavaliers
1992–1993Orlando Magic
19931998Chicago Bulls
19992001San Antonio Spurs
2001–2002Portland Trail Blazers
2002–2003San Antonio Spurs
As coach:
2014–presentGolden State Warriors
Career highlights and awards
As player:

As coach:

Career statistics
Points5,437 (6.0 ppg)
Rebounds1,060 (1.2 rpg)
Assists1,658 (1.8 apg)
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Stats at Basketball Reference Edit this at Wikidata
Medals
Men's basketball
Representing the  United States
FIBA World Championship
Gold medal – first place 1986 Spain National team
Head coach for the  United States
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2024 Paris Team
Assistant coach for the  United States
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo Team

Stephen Douglas Kerr (born September 27, 1965) is an American professional basketball coach and former player who is the head coach for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the U.S. national team. He is known as one of the most accurate three-point shooters in NBA history and holds the record for highest three-point percentage. Kerr is also a nine-time NBA champion, having won five titles as a player and four as head coach of the Warriors. He was named one of the 15 Greatest Coaches in NBA History.

Kerr played college basketball for the Arizona Wildcats. He was a two-time first-team all-conference player in the Pac-10 (now known as the Pac-12) and earned All-American honors as a senior in 1988. In the 1987–88 season, Kerr set the NCAA single-season three-point field goal percentage record (57.3%). Selected by the Phoenix Suns in the second round of the 1988 NBA draft, Kerr played 15 seasons in the NBA. He won five NBA championships as a player—three with the Chicago Bulls and two with the San Antonio Spurs—and retired as the all-time NBA leader in single-season three-point shooting percentage and career three-point shooting percentage.

Following his retirement as a player, Kerr became a minority owner of the Phoenix Suns as part of a group led by Robert Sarver that purchased the team in 2004. In June 2007, Phoenix named Kerr the team's president of basketball operations and general manager. Kerr announced he was leaving the position in June 2010. After stepping down from his post with the Suns, Kerr worked as a color commentator for NBA on TNT until 2014.

In May 2014, Kerr was named head coach of the Golden State Warriors. Under his leadership, the franchise entered the most successful period in its history, reaching the NBA Finals six times and winning four championships (in 2015, 2017, 2018, and 2022). The 2015–16 Warriors won an unprecedented 73 games, breaking the record for the most wins in an NBA season, which was formerly held by the 1995–96 Bulls which he also played for.


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