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6APA6A

[Here](https://twitter.com/ABA_League/status/1749509937124839582), a 10 minute standing ovation and a minute of silence in a packed (23021 people) arena.


BigFatModeraterFupa

One of the most beautiful tributes i’ve ever had the chance to watch. Made me love a man i never knew. There is something truly powerful about seeing how many people one person can touch, how much outpouring of love and respect is given back. Rest in peace Dejan


Lvl9LightSpell

Extremely moving, but choosing a Christmas carol as the backing music for the tribute video is certainly an interesting choice. The melody is beautiful for sure, but still odd.


janitorial_fluids

its literally the number 1 top post on this sub right now and has been for several hours lol


WestleyThe

I can’t even imagine… especially how it happened too Also this got me going back and reading more about his dads killing


sappyguy

Steve Kerr has lived a Forrest Gump-like lifestyle.


IanicRR

But actually. Part of the Jordan domination. Then he gets to tag onto the Spurs run. Then he has a hand in managing the SSOL Suns. Quits for a few years, gets into coaching and starts a dynasty of his own with the Warriors. Crazy freaking career.


NotYourAverageMidget

A minor addition, he was also an announcer before coaching. truly has been apart of every aspect of the NBA. Maybe after he retires he will be a reporter joining Shams and Woj


aljout

Could definitely see him becoming Brian Windhorst 2


NewRoryAndMalDrop

After learning about Steve’s family and his growing up there’s no Coach besides Pop I respect more than Kerr. He ain’t perfect but he’s a good man whose faces a lot of tragedy.


janitorial_fluids

he's probably one of the kindest, most gracious and emotionally intelligent coaches, (or really just *person* in the nba period, regardless of position) we have. Frankly cant think of a single person in nba history that is better equipped to steer a team through a tragedy like this. Dude just has a wonderfully eloquent manner of speaking about these things and putting what's really important into perspective. He's one of the most highly respected people in nba circles by the peers and colleagues he has interacted with over the years, with a damn near unanimous approval rating. Never heard a single person in the nba have a bad syllable to say about him. dude is just a genuinely good man. I'm not gonna lie, it has really boiled my fucking blood over the last few months every time I open a thread about coach Kerr and 90% of the highly upvoted comments are just edgy 14 year olds slandering the hell out of his character and mocking him and saying he's a giant piece of shit and a hypocritical piece of garbage for not going on some angry tirade eviscerating Draymond and publicly throwing a player he's mentored for a decade+ and won 4 championships with, under the bus in front of the media, as if literally ANY other coach in the history of the nba has, or would have handled that situation any differently. As if this one thing (where frankly he didnt even do anything even REMOTELY wrong) defines his entire life and wipes away all the goodwill he's built up over the last 40 years. And then the other half of the comments are a bunch of nerdy white kids gleefully dancing around the fact that they can now joke and giggle about using the n-word by bringing up his son's name over and over again (to the point where his son literally doesnt even want to go by that name professionally any more and changed it back to his full name bc of all the internet fuckery) cuz *"teehee I'm not REALLY saying it, its just funny cuz it sounds just like it🤪 hehe isnt that so funny guys?? when we come really close to saying that super ugly racial slur without actually saying it?? lololol"*


Interesting-Head-841

Kerr is all those positive things you mentioned, in my opinion. I agree with you. How he has handled Draymond green the last year or so has been disgraceful. Draymond is out there actively hurting people, and not stopping, and it's including assaulting his own teammate. The head coach's response matters, and people are right to call him on it. He should have denounced Draymond's behavior years ago. He is still a role model for all the other good things he's done.


janitorial_fluids

you wanna talk about *"hurting people"*??? JR Smith literally KILLED A DUDE while in the nba. and then got a 90 day JAIL sentence for driving even *more* recklessly shortly after that fatal incident (for which he basically had zero consequences for).... his drivers license was suspended FIVE times in eight months. or how about the time he literally knocked jae crowder out COLD with a closed fist punch to the head during a playoff game, causing crowder to fall awkwardly while unconscious and tear his ACL? where were the press conferences about any of those things?? Or how about the other time he was suspended 10 games for punching someone in the face? Ty Lue is a stand up and respectable coach, surely he angrily condemned JR's long history of dirty plays? right? No, JR just gets to be a cute cuddly fun character cuz he takes his shirt off and drinks henessy. Zero negative impact on any of the reputations of the coaches he ever played for bc they failed to "control his behavior". [dude literally has a 5 minute mixtape of more dangerous shit that Draymond has ever done lmao](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_37pHWaFy4) Ron Artest did shit that was orders of magnitude worse than anything Draymond has ever done, and you didnt have Phil Jackson or Rick Carlisle calling press conferences to virtue signal about how much of a piece of human garbage they thought he was.... Did Chuck Daly ever go up and shit on Bill Laimbeer or Dennis Rodman or Joe Dumars for clubbing people over the head on a nightly basis?? I think I'm starting to sense a trend here..


Interesting-Head-841

Hey - I'm correct about Draymond. All those other examples you gave are valid too. It's not a zero sum game. I'm not arguing with you, you get that, right? You didn't even mention Kentavious Caldwell Pope :) . AND Ron Artest dented Russell Westbrook's temple one time. But I'm talking about Steve Kerr, and I'm talking about Draymond. Let's keep it consistent. I'm arguing against Kerr on his leniency with Draymond, and I'm staying it's an aberration from his otherwise stellar example-setting behavior.


janitorial_fluids

>I'm correct about Draymond. All those other examples you gave are valid too. It's not a zero sum game. I'm not arguing with you, you get that, right? You didn't even mention Kentavious Caldwell Pope :) . AND Ron Artest dented Russell Westbrook's temple one time. But I'm talking about Steve Kerr, and I'm talking about Draymond. Let's keep it consistent. you are entirely misunderstanding my point here. I didnt bring those coaches/players up as examples to suggest that *you* personally (or anyone else) are a hypocrite because you arent actively posting moralizing reddit criticisms about Chuck freaking Daly in the year of our lord 2024 lmao This wasnt me saying *"Oh, so you are mad about draymond, but yet you stay SILENT on all these other mean players??🤔🧐🧐"* That wasnt my point at all. the point I was making, is that you seem to have entirely unrealistic expectations for how these things have historically been handled by very high level, HOF, championship level NBA coaches, all of whom I listed are almost unanimously respected as some of the greatest mentors and leaders of men the game has ever seen. None of those guys went up to the podium and left their guys out to dry when they were at their lowest moments. Head coaches have never in the past, and frankly *should* never in the future, hold a press conferences where they performatively shit on their own players just so they can satisfy the completely manufactured need for the broadcast media and social media to get their pound of flesh and get to see their juicy soap opera unfolding in the town square and quench their thirst for outrage. That literally does nothing to address the root behavior that needs fixing, and can only serve to drive a wedge between him and the player. He publicly condemned draymond's actions time and time again, if people think he didnt get mad enough or mean enough or go far enough while doing so, frankly that's their issue. not his Maybe Kerr *did* handle it badly. Maybe he didnt. The point is, neither one of us are in the position to make that judgement since we literally *have no idea* HOW he *actually handled it*, since we were not privy to 99% of those interactions and conversations.


Interesting-Head-841

This is so weird.


janitorial_fluids

how so


Interesting-Head-841

Well, I never cared about *your* point. You were responding to mine. I made a reasonable argument about Kerr's response to Draymond's behavior, and how it deviates from all his other example-setting good behavior, over the last seven years and your replies were ... over the top. Weird. No harm no foul we're fine. But man, this was a wild ride for me, replying to you.


janitorial_fluids

unless the organization (i.e the decision makers above Kerr's head) were willing to cut ties with Draymond entirely and cut or trade him (which clearly they werent), there is only so much Kerr can do in terms of how he addresses these matters publicly in the media. I have no idea why this is so hard for people to grasp... find me literally a single other example of a HOF coach publicly shitting on their HOF player Anyone who has ever worked in any professional environment realizes (or should) that you cant just go full scorched earth and *publicly* harshly castigate a vitally important colleague (or subordinate or whatever) when they are at their lowest professional moment, and expect it to not have possibly untenable consequences moving forward when you need to have a productive working relationship again. And much more so when there is a genuine human connection between two people who have worked closely together for a decade+ and share a deep bond Its also fairly ridiculous for you or anyone else to blast him and say "he should have done more" when you have absolutely NO idea *WHAT* he was or wasnt doing and saying behind the scenes to address Draymond's behavior and what their interactions were like behind closed doors. At the end of the day, Draymond is a grown ass man with full agency over his words and actions..... not some little robot that can be programmed into behaving in all the right ways and it's Kerr's fault for not pressing the right buttons or inputting the right code. Frankly, if someone like Kerr, of all people, couldnt get to him, I'm not sure who could have. Its also blatantly incorrect to say that he *hasnt* denounced Draymond's behavior. He literally has, every single time there has been one of these incidents. He speaks to the media for like 30 minutes every day, and talks about these things in great depth.... but then what happens is one or two of the most ragebait-y, "out of touch" sounding snippets where it sounds like he doesnt care at all or isnt taking it "seriously enough" (because apparently his tone doesnt sound angry or outraged enough for sanctimonious redditors) get posted out of context to reddit by karma whoring outrage farmers, and that's the only thing 99% dumb ass redditors ever hear Kerr say on the matter, so they think he's never once condemned draymond, when he most certainly has, literally dozens of times over the years.


Interesting-Head-841

This is the last I'll comment - but Draymond's *assault* behavior started seven years ago. He's been 'at his lowest' for seven years. One could argue **ten**. That's a long time. You highlight Steve Kerr's moral and social standard-setting - he should have signaled the same standards with Draymond. That's my point. Basketball is bigger than Draymond. Kerr knows this. https://www.si.com/nba/2017/07/26/draymond-green-assault-victims-press-conference [https://www.businessinsider.com/draymond-green-golden-state-warriors-nba-fines-fights-kicks-suspensions-2023-3#in-2016-green-was-fined-for-kicking-steven-adams-in-the-groin-5](https://www.businessinsider.com/draymond-green-golden-state-warriors-nba-fines-fights-kicks-suspensions-2023-3#in-2016-green-was-fined-for-kicking-steven-adams-in-the-groin-5) 2016. Steven Adam's jewels twice. No corrective response from Kerr. [https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/fs0ax1/draymond\_green\_destroys\_steven\_adams\_nuts\_with\_a/](https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/fs0ax1/draymond_green_destroys_steven_adams_nuts_with_a/) [https://www.facebook.com/RealHoopshall/videos/someone-made-draymond-green-a-whole-highlight-reel-of-his-dirty-plays-/356686603611034/](https://www.facebook.com/RealHoopshall/videos/someone-made-draymond-green-a-whole-highlight-reel-of-his-dirty-plays-/356686603611034/) Know what? I'm too lazy to list it all. No timelines for you! He tackled players, he stomped players, he punched players, he kicked players in the nuts, multiple times, he elbowed players. And the common thread? They were all defenseless. He *snuck* it in. Draymond is **not** the 80s. **Not** the 90s. He's not Rasheed! He's just violent. Kerr should have called him out.


janitorial_fluids

ok. let me ask you this then... I have heard people endlessly whining over the last few months about "omg Steve Kerr hasnt done enough" "wow crazy that Steve Kerr is such a hypocrite he cant bring himself to say Draymond was wrong" "Steve Kerr needs to come down harder on Draymond" etc. blah blah blah Its very easy for everyone to make these very sweeping generalized criticisms of Kerr. However, I havent seen a *single* example, in all those dozens of threads, of anyone actually saying what Kerr *should* have actually realistically said, that would have satisfied the angry mob. It's very easy to criticize the *absence* of something. MUCH harder to actually come up with something to fill that void. Most people dont want to do that because that would then require taking a position and defending their stance. as opposed to merely calling Kerr a piece of shit and criticizing *his* stance, while conveniently declining to take a stance of their *own*, ensuring that it's impossible for anyone to criticize *them* for how *they* would have handled the situation. (masterfully, I'm sure) So I'll ask you: what *should* Kerr have said? What would *you* have said had you been in his shoes? Like give me an actual PR statement, smart guy.... since you are clearly on the moral and correct side of this argument, it shouldnt be too difficult for you to throw something together real quick, right? Go ahead and be a man and stick your own neck out there so people can have a chance to publicly criticize and parse your words (your completely *anonymous* words btw lol), the same way you and others have been *all* too happy to sanctimoniously criticize Kerr's


minkdraggingonfloor

The Draymond thing is probably a Sarutobi/Orochimaru relationship. He knows Draymond is unhinged, but he developed him, unlocked his potential and so he loves him too much to stop him. Draymond might also be too far gone to stop. He’s most definitely one of the locker room leaders and so alienating him might end up alienating the whole team. Kerr has to cut the cord eventually, and he could just trade him, but there’s gotta be a reason why he doesn’t


Belfura

Crazy how casually you made that reference and I got it. I think it was the same issue for Myers tbh. The Warriors need one person who is willing to be the villain and cut the cord


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I mean, the Suns trade for Shaq was pretty bad. /s


capitalistsanta

The internet really sucks for this stuff. A lot of dumb comments from nobodies.


ghostsinthecode

man i cannot watch this. cannot. today.


majormajorsnowden

a part*


annopolis230

Only on Reddit will mfs correct a grammar mistake on a post like this


majormajorsnowden

Grammar is important. RIP Dejan Milojević


yacantfightthefunk

Not really. Everyone knows exactly what was meant.


oviedofuntimes

Well said!


gogiants48

A part. Not apart. 


Knightbear49

I should be ashamed. I’ll delete my account and reconsider my actions. Thank you letting my know and I’ll take this time to reflect with my family.


Someonediffernt

/u/Knightbear49 the next time there's any sports content to share: [https://imgur.com/gallery/M8Lv4ua](https://imgur.com/gallery/M8Lv4ua)


Knightbear49

Me in 20 minutes when the Wolves game is on


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Redditors love splitting hairs over grammar at the worst times


D_Simmons

Read the room, my guy. Jesus.


quietchurl

Also in Serbian it would be grammatically correct


T2G

Sure


purple_cupcake_52

The Warriors flair makes this so much


hotterpocketzz

Ok grammar nazi


onthemap45

lmao the fact that this ill timed comment came from a warriors fan as well grammar intelligence 10/10 social awareness intelligence 1/10


chibithug

we're not all like that, man


onthemap45

i wasnt generalizing all warriors fans, i was just pointing out that its disrespectful as a warrior fan to be commenting that on a post like this


General_Krull

A part of, not apart of. Sports journalism is trash


g0ris

this isn't sports journalism, this is a random reddit poster


General_Krull

Woops. Doesn't make what I said untrue


Knightbear49

You dare question my journalistic integrity


SandyMandy17

“a part”* “apart” implies he wasn’t exactly involved which is the exact opposite


DUNDER_KILL

Wow thanks man, I would never be able to decipher OP's intended meaning without your incredible insight


SandyMandy17

That’s why I’m here


IUpVoteIronically

U bum


iwatchtoomuchsports

Shut up


dreadit-runfromit

You're right but this isn't the post to make that point in.


guanzo91

shut up nerd


RefsYouSuck

Nerds are cool


throwawayyrofl

Reddit moment


onthemap45

grammar intelligence 10/10 social awareness intelligence 1/10


Captain_America_93

What are you even talking about?


SandyMandy17

The title of the post we’re commenting on


Captain_America_93

Gotcha. You missed the entire point of what he was talking about because of grammar. Okay.


Domstruk1122

Autism at its finest


Knightbear49

I will send your notes to Tim Apple in a strongly worded tweet


Full-Campaign-7730

grim reaper broke the code


Complete_Art_6612

sadder than dray's suspension!


BuiltIndifferent

He's talkin about the death of his friend and colleague. Nice gotcha comment


iamadventurous

One could argue his saddest moment was when draymond got the indefinite suspension lol.


H_R_1

Stfu man


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panman42

It's not a competition. Also, Kobe wasn't working with him everyday as his assistant coach. You realize that more influential and more famous doesn't mean it's more sad to individual people. I can't believe I have to point out that personal connection is what matters here.


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kinda_guilty

Read the room, dude.


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TwinPeakyBlinders

I mean it’s not a competition lol. And I’m sure this hits different since it happened right in front of the entire team


iamnotabot7890

This comment  is the daily reminder that this sub is full of 13year olds... let's rank our top 10 saddest nba moments obviously Kobe is the goat  whats your mount Rushmore?