The happiest man in America is, or should be, Steve Kerr. How close he actually came to accepting an offer to coach the Knicks from Phil Jackson in May 2014 we don’t really know. Only that Kerr had understandable reservations about becoming the frontman — or fall guy — for the newly minted Team Triangle before an offer he couldn’t refuse from the Golden State Warriors made it a moot point.
You probably know the rest of Kerr’s fork-in-the road story that fortuitously led to an N.B.A. title.
Just recently — or exactly one week before Derek Fisher coached his final game Sunday for the Knicks — Kerr visited Madison Square Garden with his irrepressible band of Warriors.