Steve Kerr, head coach of the most popular team in the NBA, has dealt with shuffled starting lineups early this season. For various reasons, his starters keep missing games and the first thing he does at each pre-game press conference is announce which bench player will start in their place. Basketball reporters, in turn, will tweet out Kerr’s answers. It’s a strange manufacturing line that eventually delivers relevant news to sports fans, and Kerr has decided to have a little fun with it. Can you blame him!?
Steve Kerr’s brilliant running gag has him breaking out new props at press conferences
A Rubik’s Cube, a Slinky, a deck of cards, and Steve Kerr all walk into a bar...
Kerr started by clipping his nails
On Nov. 8 against the Timberwolves, Kevin Durant missed the game and Kerr decided to play Andre Iguodala instead. You can see exactly how this running gag started. Kerr was probably clipping his nails, for real, shortly before his press conference. Knowing he’d have to announce his starters, he saved a couple nails — just to lighten the mood.
It was so well received by the thirsty blogosphere that he had to keep going.
Kerr solved a Rubik’s Cube
Stephen Curry couldn’t play and Shaun Livingston took his place, so Kerr broke out the Rubik’s Cube. As one does!
Kerr brings a Slinky out of nowhere
Props!
Kerr shuffles a deck of cards
With Durant and Draymond Green out, Kerr had to shuffle his lineups. Into the starting lineup go Jordan Bell and Omri Casspi, and into the Twitter spotlight goes Kerr and his trusty deck of 52.
What’s next?
Kerr already joked about bringing a yo-yo, so eyes out for that. Otherwise, we have a few ideas if Kerr is lacking inspiration:
- Solve a sudoku puzzle.
- Hum on a little ditty on a kazoo.
- Take a selfie after slipping one of these on.
- Blow some bubbles from a can.
- Whittle a small wooden figurine.
- Strengthen his fingers with this.
- Thumb through his favorite magazine.
- Try to understand the fidget spinner craze (wait is the craze already over).
- Break in a new glove by tossing a baseball up in the air and catching it.
- Practice a new-found love for origami.
- Catch a Pokemon with whatever they call GameBoys now.
- Bring us back to the 90s with a Bop It.
- Shave off a mustache that he grew for this sole purpose.
- Finish reading his favorite SB Nation article on his Kindle (c’mon Steve we know you love us).
- Pump fake the entire media by pulling out his phone and tweeted from his own Twitter account who the starters will be that evening, and then kindly request that each beat writer just retweets him.
- I really need Kerr to do that last one; I can’t stop laughing at the absurdity of it.
- What if he did it from a new account he just created with no other obvious tells, and journalists had to somehow find the tweet before they could tweet it out.
- OK so I just turned Kerr into an innocent NBA head coach version of the Jigsaw Killer, let’s move on here.
- Assemble some IKEA furniture.
- Build a birdhouse.
That’s it, Steve. If you can’t find an idea you like in that list, we can’t help you.
Don’t worry: We’ll keep updating this post as new gags are introduced.
