The Warriors and Rockets have a few similarities: skill at shooting the three-pointers, guards who dominated the MVP talk, a long stretch of not being particularly good.
Here’s one big thing the Western Conference Final opponents have in common: coaches who have followed the same path.
Kevin McHale and Steve Kerr are former players who got back into the game as general managers, worked as television analysts and eventually found themselves back on the sideline coaching.
Last spring, when Kerr was thinking about his options, he was doing some Rockets playoff games for TNT.