OAKLAND >> Steve Kerr played with some of the NBA’s greatest players and for several of its greatest coaches. But the man most responsible for Kerr’s success as the Warriors’ first-year coach was an understated Middle East scholar who enjoyed curing olives and had little interest in professional basketball.
“I’m grateful I had him for 18 years,” Kerr said recently in a rare interview about his father. “I feel his full impact on my whole life. It’s there every day.”
Malcolm Kerr was assassinated in the winter of 1984, gunned down by Islamic terrorists at the American University of Beirut.