"What I experienced there was a dream. You arrive young, you see the teammates I've had, and now that I've left, I can say that many of them are friends; I still talk to them."
"When Andy approached me about this, it was a no-brainer," Steve Kerr tells ESPN. It was August 2023 and exactly the kind of offer the nine-time NBA champion wanted: to join friends at a top division team and in a place composer Frédéric Chopin claimed was the most beautiful on earth. "A wonderful opportunity," the Golden State Warriors coach calls it. There was just one problem: right time, right place ... wrong sport?