Almost everybody, including Steve Kerr, had a good laugh at the viral clip of Snoop Dogg commentating over the Golden State Warriors coach’s ejection from an NBA game against the Los Angeles Clippers earlier this week. But at least one notable person in Kerr’s life came away disturbed by the scene that unfolded on the court at Intuit Dome on Monday, Jan. 5.
She didn’t like how her son acted and let him know about it postgame in a conversation that left Kerr ‘a little alarmed.’
‘I was upset about a couple calls, but all good other than my mom being terribly disappointed in me,’ Kerr revealed to reporters, according to NBC Sports Bay Area, in his first comments regarding the incident. ‘She was at the game and she looked horrified afterwards. She asked me if I was going to hit the referee. I said, ‘Mom, I’ve never hit anybody in my life.’ She said it looked like you were going to hit him. And she said, ‘Why were all those men holding you back?’ I said, ‘Well, that’s all part of the theatrics of it.’ She didn’t understand, but I was a little alarmed that she thought I was actually going to hit somebody. That scared me a little bit.’
Kerr’s outburst occurred after Warriors star Stephen Curry was called for his fifth foul in the game against the Clippers, which came immediately after a sequence in which a potential Curry 3-point play was instead ruled as a foul on the floor and an apparent goaltend on a shot by Payton went uncalled. Crew chief Brian Kersey said in the postgame pool report, ‘it should have been ruled a goaltending violation.’
Kerr reacted angrily, stomping onto the floor and screaming at the officials. He was quickly given two technical fouls. Curry ended up fouling out with 43 seconds remaining, and Jimmy Butler missed a potential game-winning 16-foot jumper at the buzzer to give the Clippers a 103-102 win over Golden State. Kerr did not attend his postgame news conference and Stotts took his place.
Kerr’s ejection gained more attention because Snoop Dogg happened to be making a guest appearance on the national broadcast for Peacock as Kerr’s emotional outburst began and leaned into the moment for effect.
‘Get him, Steve. You in Inglewood, Steve. The Arizona Wildcat done come out of him. Look at that,’ the rapper and entertainer said, before growling like a wildcat into the microphone.
‘I had like five people send it to me immediately,’ Kerr said of the clip. ‘That was rather amusing.’
Just don’t tell his mom that.
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