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Talking Steve Kerr with Scott Howard-Cooper

Episode Summary

Steve Kerr has a basketball journey unlike any other. We talk about everything from him barely being recruited out of high school to the five NBA championships through soon becoming the Team USA coach with the guy who literally wrote the book on Kerr, Scott Howard-Cooper.

Episode Notes

Steve Kerr is expected to soon be named the USA Basketball head coach to succeed Gregg Popovich, but Kerr's journey to this place  is unlike any other.  Kerr was barely recruited out of high school as a player, ended up becoming a legend at Arizona under Lute Olsen, and went from being a second-round NBA pick to 15 years in the league, five rings, and a black eye from a punch from Michael Jordan.  Kerr's life was not easy — his father was assassinated by terrorists in the Middle East while he was in college — but he also has had some breaks, then took full advantage of them. In this latest PBT Podcast, we talk about all of that with Scott Howard Cooper, the man who literally wrote the book on Kerr, which is available now, Steve Kerr: A Life