Is The Steve Kerr Difference Real?

The Steve Kerr-helmed good ship Golden State Warriors may be in title contention for the first time in 40 years or since the last time Rick Barry had real, not acrylic hair.

By Andrew Pridgen

Ex-headset Steve Kerr’s rookie-season with clipboard and necktie has drawn raves and brought early comparison along the lines of Kerr is to Mark Jackson as Bruce Bochy is to Dusty Baker—a geographically apt analogy. All four, at least on the surface, are player-friendly; but beneath the veneer Kerr and Boch are known as a bit more capable between the lines. (Singletary and Harbaugh don’t get to be part of this Bay Area coach-and-successor-coach analogy because they’re pretty much both dicks.)

The jury’s out, rather hasn’t even been selected, on Kerr but Boch has a fistful of rings and a bust already being sculpted in Cooperstown by Lionel Richie’s blind girlfriend. And Baker, well, he…