More on Steve Kerr Health
Rusty Simmons: The Warriors confirmed that head coach Steve Kerr is feeling ill, but he still plans to fly with the team for tomorrow's game at Phoenix.
Marc Stein: ESPN sources say Steve Kerr is returning to Golden State's bench and coaching tonight at home against Indiana
Rusty Simmons: Warriors announce that Steve Kerr is coaching tonight.
Ethan Strauss: Kerr jokes that he planned to send an "I'm back" fax like MJ
Luke Walton is careful not to anticipate the exact return date for Steve Kerr, but the Warriors’ interim head coach is hopeful that the head man will be back on the bench soon. “More and more, the further we go into the season,” Walton said Wednesday of Kerr’s involvement at the end of his longest road trip of the season. “It’s daily talks now that he’s with us on the road. It’s matchups. It’s bouncing ideas off of each other. Besides not being the coach on the bench during games, he’s very much involved in the decisions and the prep work.”
Warriors general manager Bob Myers does not know when Steve Kerr will come back to coaching. "He's trying," Myers told The Jim Rome Show on Wednesday. "He wants to get back, but it's just tough right now. He's not able to do it, and we hope it will be soon."
Kerr’s return date will be dictated by two factors, the state of his physical health and his ability to project how he would handle the increased workload. His back has held up well. His headaches have diminished in severity, but they have not completely gone away.
Kerr is by all accounts getting close to returning and the players can sense it. “I’m not sure when; it could be any day now, it could be a couple weeks,” Thompson said. “But he’s very active now at practice. It feels like he’s already back.”
Draymond Green on Steve Kerr yelling at halftime vs the Kings (KNBR): "It was cool. It was good to see. Obviously, you don't want to be in that position where he has to, but it kind of reinsures you that he's almost back. It was good to see. He didn't snap like I've seen him snap before. He said what he had to say and got his point across, but I've seen him kind of go crazy on us before. He didn't really do that this time. He just got his point across and moved on, but it was still good to see."
Steve Kerr was boarding the Warriors' charter flight to Dallas on Tuesday, according to the team, marking the farthest he would have traveled on while on his leave of absence. Kerr said last week after leading a practice for a day that while he wasn't 100 percent healthy, he hoped to return to the bench as coach sometime after going on the trip for back-to-back games against the Dallas Mavericks and Houston Rockets on Wednesday and Thursday.
Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr is feeling better as he deals with complications from back surgery, and hopes to be back on the bench in the coming weeks. Kerr attended practice Monday and Tuesday and was at the team's shootaround Wednesday ahead of Golden State's home game against Phoenix. "What I've learned is that I miss it," Kerr said in a hallway near the team's locker room. "I'm still hoping in the next two to three weeks to be back on the bench."
Rusty Simmons: Warriors backup Shaun Livingston said head coach Steve Kerr has been more vocal in film sessions and practices since the team returned home.
Head coach Steve Kerr was a familiar, unmistakable presence at Tuesday’s practice. The Warriors are offering no target for Kerr’s return to the bench, but he’s clearly making progress in his recovery from two offseason back surgeries. “He’s acting more like himself and joking more like himself,” interim head coach Luke Walton said Tuesday. “As far as what that means for his return, we still have no idea — but it’s nice to see more of his old self.”
Tim Kawakami: Asked Kerr if there was ever a thought he might miss the whole season. Kerr: "I don't think that way at all. I think I'll be back... I don't know exactly when, but I think I will be back coaching again this season." Said this home stand will be a good measure.
Kerr is there in Walton’s ear almost every step of the way, making the most of a connection that he knew would be important here. "We're talking normally a couple times a day now," Walton said of Kerr, who is still unsure when he’ll return. "And if it’s a home game, we talk at halftime, we talk pregame, we talk at shootarounds. It’s getting more and more."
Head coach Steve Kerr continues to be sidelined by complications from his offseason back surgeries, and general manager Bob Myers told USA TODAY Sports he still has no clarity as to when Kerr will return. But Kerr remains very involved with the team, having spent time with the players and coaches at shootaround in Los Angeles on Thursday morning and attending Friday night's game.
Lets Go Warriors: Steve Kerr is here. Just had a free throw shooting contest against #StephCurry... #Warriors https://t.co/afNmy0rfXp
The Golden State Warriors have been without Steve Kerr since training camp, as the head coach recovers from a spinal fluid leak. The team has not given a timetable for his return, but one Warriors player said that he might not be back until after February's All-Star festivities. "We had a chance to catch up with coach Kerr before the game and he still seemed very fatigued, told us he's dealing with headaches, is still heavily medicated," ESPN's J.A. Adande reported during the Warriors' game against the Los Angeles Clippers on Wednesday. "Yet [he] did get a chance to talk to the team after its 50-point victory over the Memphis Grizzlies the other day. He joked with them that, 'It's obvious you guys need me.' Now, they took that as a good sign his sense of humor was back. But he's still far away. In fact, one player told me they wouldn't be surprised if it takes him until after the All-Star break to return. And they're prepared to go that long without him."
Diamond Leung: Steve Kerr will not be on the trip
"I know I'm on the right track, the right path," Kerr said. "I'm very confident that I will be back this season and I can't wait; it's killing me. It is killing me not to be out there tonight."
He said there’s also “a decent chance” he’ll go with the team to Houston and New Orleans later this week… and that–as he gradually feels better and starts to exercise–he’s sure he’ll be back coaching at some point this season.
Kerr had surgery to repair a ruptured disk in his back July 28, but during the procedure, the dura surrounding the spinal cord was nicked and caused spinal-fluid leakage. On Sept. 4, Kerr had a second operation to patch the leak, but five weeks later, he’s still having adverse symptoms while taking a leave of absence from the team. “The body forms spinal fluid constantly,” said Dr. Neel Anand, the director of spine trauma at Cedars-Sinai Spine Center in Los Angeles. “As long as it doesn’t continue to leak, he’ll make a full recovery and be back to normal.”
Ramona Shelburne: Walton said his expectation is that Kerr plans to stay away to rest and recover. He needs "peace" as he struggles with this back injury
