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This is The New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick.

Basketball fans were first introduced to Steve Kerr as a three-point shooting specialist for the Chicago Bulls during the 90s and their championship runs.

Playing alongside Michael Jordan, Kerr was by no means the star of the Bulls,

but he still holds the record for career three-point percentage.

It's in coaching that Kerr has come to the four in the NBA.

Over 12 years, he's led the Golden State Warriors to four titles and a record 73 win season in 2016.

Still a remarkable record.

He coached the men's Olympic team in 2024 that took home a gold medal.

Kerr has also used his platform at times to wade into politics.

He spoke at the Democratic National Convention in 2024, and his name comes up sometimes in conversations about candidates for higher office.

Charles Bethay, who's a staff writer at The New Yorker, went to see Steve Kerr the other day just after his team,

the Warriors, finished their season.

So there's some backstory to my meeting, Steve. Back in 2018, I actually spent a couple

days with his mother in the Pacific Palisades. I'd gone to watch her teach a class called

Perceptions of the U.S. abroad.

And rather than stay in a pricey hotel nearby, she said, why don't you just come stay with me?

And I showed up and she put me in Steve's room, which had mostly been stripped of the markings of

adolescent Steve, though I did find a few photographs in a closet of him.

So I met Steve for the first time in San Francisco, and we had lunch, and then we went and sat down in his office.

All right. So thank you very much for doing this. I don't typically sleep in the childhood bedroom of an interview

subject before talking to him. This is a first for me. Your mother, as you know, Anne was kind

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