If Sunday’s last regular season game at Oracle Arena was supposed to be a moment of sentimentality, nobody gave Warriors head of public relations Raymond Ridder the memo.
Ridder, who has provided multiple moments of entertainment in the past, roasted Warriors head coach Steve Kerr during his pregame presser, joking that Kerr’s injury-plagued first season was the best year of his career.
“My rookie year when I was “playing” for the Phoenix Suns, I missed 56 games that year with Achilles tendentious,” Kerr said reminiscing in self-deprecating fashion about the first time he played at Oracle. “I can’t remember if it was my left or right, whichever one they told me that I had.”
“That was your best season,” Ridder chimed in leading to uproarious laughter.
“Wow, wow, wow.” Kerr said with a smile. “Gosh. Anything else from the peanut gallery over there?”
Kerr appeared in just 26 games in his first season in the NBA, averaging 2.1 points in six minutes per game. Kerr’s actual best season was probably with the 72-game winning, 1995-96 NBA Champion Bulls. Kerr accumulated 8.3 win shares that season (a career high) and averaged 8.4 points off the bench while shooting over 50 percent from 3-point range.
