Steve Kerr, the current coach of the Golden State Warriors, was also a three-time champion as a player for the Chicago Bulls, two franchises that are among the most successful in NBA history and could soon share more than Kerr, six NBA Finals in eight seasons.
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At the time of this writing, the Warriors are one game away from defeating the Dallas Mavericks in the Western Conference Finals and if they do, they would play for the Larry O’Brien Trophy against the winner of the Eastern Conference Finals, which will be decided by the Boston Celtics against the Miami Heat. If Kerr does so, he would equal the already explained milestone of one of his great mentors, the legendary Phil Jackson.
Golden State’s golden era
With Kerr as coach, the Golden State team reached its first Finals in 2015, winning the championship 4-2 against LeBron James’ Cleveland Cavaliers.
From were five straight Finals for Golden State, four of them against Cleveland and one more against the Toronto Raptors, however, then came two years of fasting, without if you want to reach the postseason and now in 2022 could reach for the sixth time to the dispute of the title in this era.
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The Bulls, on the other hand, also had a two-year hiatus when Michael Jordan decided to retire for the first time to try to play baseball, but in the middle of that pause they came and won two three-time championships (1991-1993 and 1996-1998), the last period with Kerr as part of that legendary roster.
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The three players who have been to all five Finals, and could be in the Warriors’ sixth under Kerr are Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green, however, unlike the six Finals that featured Jackson, Jordan and Scottie Pippen, Golden State has not gone undefeated, winning three and losing two.
No one comes close to Bill Russell’s legendary Celtics.
Of course, neither of these two franchises has come close to the ultimate feat of Bill Russell’s legendary Boston Celtics, who went to ten consecutive NBA Finals under Red Auerbach, winning nine and being champions eight times in a row from 1957 to 1966, in addition to Russell’s own short stint as coach, they reached 12 of 13 Finals in the period from 1957 to 1969.
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