SAN FRANCISCO — It’s hard to say whether the Golden State Warriors were winning one for their coach, or providing a place of temporary solitude for their grieving teammate.
They had a basketball game to win, an opportunity to go up 3-1 on an opponent they’d like to dispatch — so keeping whatever emotions were flying through this wild series, on this day, seemed to be at a premium opposed to a source of inspiration.
Steve Kerr was diagnosed with COVID-19 moments before his pregame media session, hours after Draymond Green learned his college teammate was killed in Florida Monday morning.