Steve Kerr takes blame after Draymond Green sideline blowup

Steve Kerr stepped to the microphone Wednesday and did not effort to dodge what happened 2 nights earlier. After his statement with Draymond Green led the seasoned guardant to locomotion distant from the seat during a timeout successful Monday’s triumph implicit the Orlando Magic, the Warriors manager said helium handled the infinitesimal poorly and owned the fallout.

"Monday nighttime was not my finest hour, and that was a clip I needed to beryllium calm successful the huddle," Kerr said aft signifier astatine Chase Center, 1 time earlier Golden State hosts the Dallas Mavericks connected Christmas. "I regret my actions successful that exchange. I apologized to [Green]. He apologized to me. We some apologized to the team.

Kerr framed the flare-up arsenic the benignant of clash that tin hap wrong a agelong narration built connected unit and competition. "These things, they hap -- particularly erstwhile you get 2 incredibly competitory radical similar Dray and me," helium said.

A concern built connected winning and friction

Kerr repeatedly returned to what Green has meant to the franchise since Kerr became manager successful 2014. He pointed to the 4 title banners hanging successful the gathering and argued that Green’s power is inseparable from them.

"There's a agelong past of that present due to the fact that we recognize each different and I recognize his power. There are 4 banners retired there, and evidently a batch of radical played important roles successful that, but I've said this earlier and I genuinely judge it: I don't deliberation we person immoderate without him," Kerr said.

The manager besides stressed that the blowup is not unprecedented. "We are acold much alike than anyone would ever realize," helium said, adding that it had been a fewer years since thing escalated this way, nevertheless it was not the archetypal clip crossed their 12 seasons together.

Kerr wants Green to discontinue successful Golden State

Kerr said the occurrence did not alteration his bigger anticipation for the organization’s aboriginal with Green, particularly arsenic the team’s rubric epoch ages and erstwhile pillars specified arsenic Klay Thompson determination on.

"My No. 1 goal, honestly, is for him to decorativeness his vocation arsenic a Warrior with america warring metaphorically -- not virtually but warring and competing unneurotic -- until we're some gone. And I judge that's going to happen," Kerr said.

Kerr besides acknowledged the world astir the team’s existent stage. "We are nary longer the '17 Warriors, you know, dominating the league. We are a fading dynasty. We cognize that. Everybody knows that," helium said. "Where we are arsenic a team, arsenic an organization, the astir important happening for maine is for guys to admit that there's quality successful the struggle."