Kerr to be named next Suns GM
Jerry Brown, Tribune
Steve Kerr will be announced as the new president of basketball operations and general manager of the Suns within the week, an NBA source with knowledge of the situation said. Current general manager Mike D’Antoni will still have a front office le in addition to his coaching duties
The source said current vice president of basketball operations David Griffin will decide tonight whether to stay with the Suns or take a similar position with the Grizzlies. The Suns want Griffin to stay and would probably give him a raise and another le. Griffin would also keep a lot of the duties for which he is currently responsible.
Kerr’s move into the front office would take a lot of the strain off D’Antoni who is not only the Suns coach but an assistant for Team USA.
Kerr is currently a minority owner in the team and a close friend of Suns owner Robert Sarver
A five-time NBA champion and 15-year veteran as a player, Steve Kerr, returns to the organization where he began his professional career.
Kerr was the Suns’ second selection in the 1988 NBA Draft (50th overall) after a four-year career at the University of Arizona. He is the league’s all-time leader in career 3-point field goal percentage, with a .454 mark (726-1599). He played his rookie season in the NBA with Phoenix in 1988-89.
Kerr won three NBA les with the Chicago Bulls (1996, 1997 and 1998) and was a member of two San Antonio Spurs NBA championship teams (1999 and 2003). Kerr, who retired after the 2002-03 season, appeared in 910 regular season games, averaging six points, 1.8 assists and 1.2 rebounds per contests.
This past season Kerr was an NBA analyst for Turner Sports and worked in the Spurs broadcasting booth.
Kerr, who was born in Beirut, Lebanon on Sept. 27, 1965, earned his degree in general studies from Arizona in 1988.
He and wife, Margot, have three children, Nicholas, Madeleine and Matthew.
Interesting.
I guess he won't be broadcasting anymore
Yay or nay if you're a Suns fan?
At least we don't have to hear him pretend to be neutral on the airwaves anymore.
Or Spurs fan for that matter.(my last post)
He can't be any worse than D'Antoni. Hopefully his "inside/outside" mantra will win out and Phoenix will finally maximize its potential. I doubt he and D'Antoni get along. Mike is a hard-headed SOB who does things his way, results be damned. Even if Kerr makes a good signing, there's no expectation of D'Antoni playing him if by doing so it requires him to actually, A. coach, B. tinker with his system, or C. scrap his system in favor of his new GMs.
Why is that?I guess he won't be broadcasting anymore
I guess we won't have to hear his biased broadcasting anymore...
Fine. But what are his managerial and talent evaluation strategies other than writing crappy little articles on Yahoo?
Does his vision of a team jive with that of D'Antoni? I'm trying to remember Kerr's career, but as far as I know he never played or was exposed as a player to a system like D'Antonis.
Bottomline: It seems like more of a flashy PR move, than a basketball move.
Good move IMO. D'Antoni has totally whiffed on personnel moves (see Marcus Banks and Boris Diaw), so we definitely needed a new general manager. As for possible conflicts with D'Antoni, with the Colangelos finally leaving Phoenix, I think that Sarver is growing a bit tired of small ball. If we don't win a championship next year, then I would highly doubt if D'Antoni still had a job. Hopefully Kerr can follow in the footsteps of guys like Paxson and Dumars as a GM.
Stevie has a good brain. Seems to be a good move.
Most Suns fans are happy to have someone other than D'Antoni making personnel decisions. Don't think the Suns can afford to lose Griffin, though.
I think it's a good move. Griffin and D'Antoni made some pretty boneheaded mistakes last summer, so the addition of Kerr will likely produce better results. I've listened to Kerr's commentary, and he's a smart guy.
As a Suns fan, I say 'Yay' to this move.
That was my first thought!
That's pretty funny, just because Suns fans on the Suns board are all talking about his man love for San Antonio.
So-so. We (suns fans) expected this when Sarver took over and Kerr was part of the group.
He has the pedigree (playing at UofA and winning 5 rings in the NBA) of winning and the Suns have a solid core of players. We'll see if he can finally bring us a decent center.
D'Ant was from the Colangelo regime and the Suns will make some tweaks for next season. If they don't win the le next season D'Ant will probably be shown the door.
Good for Steve. Hope it works out well for him whenever they're not playing the Spurs.
For those questioning his qualifications, Steve was studying for his master's in sports administration- I am not sure if he ever finished it.
Damn I'm good at reporting the news around here.
So he'll be moving out of SA.
Maybe Steve will take a page from Pop's book by taking over as coach and making the Suns play defense.
I think JVG takes Steve's place with TNT. Didn't Steve replace JVG, when JVG left for the Rockets job? I know he wants to stay in Houston, because of his wife and kid(s?), and this would give him the opportunity to do that.
Also, I really, really, really like JVG as a commentator.
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