Winning at the NBA level is a difficult enough task in itself. To do so at the most critical time of the year, against people who know you almost as well as you know yourself, is likely to take that degree of difficulty up another notch, or several.
If you’ve been around the NBA as long as Steve Kerr has, in the various capacities he’s performed in, that possibility becomes all the more likely.
In each of the first three rounds of the 2018 Playoffs, Kerr has gone up against a familiar face from his nearly 30 years in and around the NBA as a player, broadcaster, general manager, and now, head coach.