OAKLAND – Steve Kerr tried and failed to completely suppress the agony he was feeling. The man was in pain. He was talking the good fight, and he probably believed in what he was saying.
“Will you be ready for training camp,” I asked the Warriors coach last month.
“Yeah,” he said, “I’m sure I’ll be OK by then. I won’t be fully healed, but I should be able to push through.”
That he could not push through was conceded on Thursday. Three days into a training camp in which he had few comfortable minutes, Kerr decided to take a leave of absence from the team.