"There's no way any of us could have walked out onto a court and played a basketball game." Kerr thanks Adam Silver and the NBA for postponing the Warriors' last two games
“Heartbreaking”: Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr remembers late assistant Dejan Milojevic
NBATuesday, 23 January 2024 at 16:00
Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr has paid tribute
to his former assistant Dejan Milojevic and stated that his demise was the ‘saddest
thing’ he has been a part of.
Milojevic, who was working as Kerr’s assistant for the Warriors,
passed away on January 16 after suffering a heart attack. Following that unfortunate incident, the NBA
postponed the Warriors' next two games.
Kerr appeared in the press conference on Monday wearing a
black shirt and stated that the NBA did the right thing by postponing the matches
as the players and the staff were not in the right frame of mind to play either
of those matches.
“Heartbreaking. Devastating,” he said. “It’s just the
saddest thing I’ve ever been a part of in the NBA. We lose someone who is so
close to us, and then, more importantly, seeing his family suffer. This last
week has been … full of all of the above.”
“We needed [the break],” Kerr said. “There’s no way any of
us could’ve walked out onto a court and played a basketball game either
Wednesday or Friday. I literally could picture Deki smiling and laughing and
saying, ‘You motherf***ers need to go win a basketball game.’ And then laughing.
“That’s exactly what he would have said with a smile on his
face. He would’ve laughed. He would’ve, win or lose, still been smiling and
laughing and having great suggestions of what we can do differently. But he
really embodied the spirit and the values that we try to display as a team and
as an organization."
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