Steve Kerr can cut it with the sanctimony.
The Warriors head coach is still upset about Celtics fans showering Draymond Green with expletives when Golden State visited the TD Garden for Games 3, 4 and 6 of the NBA Finals. Fans were chanting “f— you Draymond!” at various points, as well as other expletives.
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“I thought they crossed the line,” Kerr said on a podcast hosted by Andre Igoudala and Evan Turner, per Heavy.com. “I’m all for booing guys, cheering for your own team. The appropriate cheer — if you want to go down that path — is ‘so-and-so sucks, so-and-so sucks.’ When they were saying ‘F you Draymond,’ 20,000 people, I thought of Draymond’s kid too.”
Thanks for the lesson in class and decorum. Green’s wife also ripped Celtics fans for chanting obscenities at her husband in front of their children … even though Green swore in front of his kid at his Game 3 post-game presser.
“I played like s—,” Green said in response to a question about his horrible on-court performance.
Following Game 3, Kerr sarcastically called Celtics fans “classy,” while Klay Thompson chided the Garden faithful for “dropping f-bombs with children in the crowd.”
Kerr said on the podcast he hopes Green’s kids can recover from the trauma they endured.
“Like DJ, five years old, sweet kid, like the nicest kid … this sweet and innocent little guy and he’s gotta sit there and watch as his dad gets cussed out by 20,000 drunk fans,” Kerr said. “People don’t think of it in those terms when you’re watching from the outside. I do think it rattled Draymond a little bit because that’s pretty extreme.”
Green, to his credit, never criticized Celtics fans for their reaction to him. He antagonized the Celtics all series long, and thus, their fans clapped back. That’s the way it works.
The best way to shield kids from vulgarity is to keep them home.