PORTLAND — All Steve Kerr has now are hope and patience.
He’s tried just about everything else over the last year and a half, since a spinal fluid leak during back surgery compromised his health. Medicine. Yoga. Meditation. Exercise. Grit-your-teeth toughness.
Yet, he is back here, embedded in discomfort. His competitive spirit brought to submission by agony.
Kerr did his best to project normalcy when he resurfaced publicly Sunday to address the media. He walked casually to the ballroom of a swanky Portland hotel to personally deliver an update on his health. Flanked by general manager Bob Myers — the one originally scheduled to talk with reporters — Kerr was as friendly as usual, flashed some smiles even.