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Steve Kerr: NBA has gone overboard in rewarding fouls

SAN FRANCISCO — From an arena where he played four seasons in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Warriors head coach Steve Kerr said he doesn’t quite want hand-checking to be re-instituted, but that he believes the NBA too generously calls fouls on offensive players.

But Kerr isn’t blaming the players. He believes the NBA has gone too far in awarding offensive players when they are trying to fool officials.

“We have to decide as a league, are we going to call fouls that people would laugh about at a pickup game?” Kerr said before Tuesday night’s game against the Spurs at AT&T Center.