Minutes after Golden State wrapped up the 2015 NBA championship late Tuesday night, Steve Kerr saw a TV camera in his team’s locker room and half-jokingly asked assistant Alvin Gentry to deliver a message back to New Orleans, where Gentry will take over as head coach in 2015-16. On live TV, a laughing Kerr may not have expected what came next out of Gentry’s mouth.
“Hey AD, AD, we’re going to be right back here (in the NBA Finals)!” a grinning, champagne-drenched Gentry said to Pelicans All-Star forward Anthony Davis, directly into an NBA TV camera. “We’re going to be right back here, OK?