GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS coach Steve Kerr blamed his new iPhone and lack of Twitter expertise for his since-deleted tweet about NBA officials.
Replying to a tweet from the NBA’s official account on Thursday that praised James Harden for “putting on a show”, Kerr suggested the Houston Rockets guard should have been called for a travel before a made three-pointer.
“It’s an embarrassment. I think the league is so happy with all the scoring that it doesn’t want to enforce stuff like that,” Kerr’s reply said.
Kerr swears he thought he was sending a direct message, while he blamed his new iPhone X for his thoughts about the league’s officiating being shared.
“I thought it was a direct message,” Kerr said. “My new iPhone is killing me.”
“A friend DM’d me and said, ‘what do you think about this clip?’ I responded to him,” Kerr continued. ”I hit send, and I was like, ‘Oh no’. I went right over to [assistant coach] Chris DeMarco because I have no idea how to delete a tweet.”
“I rarely even send a tweet, let alone delete one, so I gave it to DeMarco,” Kerr added. “He deletes it after maybe 30 seconds, and I go, ‘What do you think? Am I going to get away with it?’ And he goes, ‘Hell no’.”
As far as the NBA’s disciplinarians go, he is getting away with it, as the league appears to be buying his story.
ESPN reports that since Kerr’s message was intended to be private, the league does not believe a fine is warranted.
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Always loved watching him play snooker, but my god I’m sick of listening to him. Just retire and be done with it, I really think 99 percent of snooker fans won’t miss him
@Raymond Kelly: shows you aren’t a snooker fan
@Raymond Kelly: i honestly think that sometimes he gets bored and does and says things just for the sake of it. Can be very tiresome to listen to.
He is such a brilliant snooker player,one of the best ever,but also a massive knob head too
Delighted for Wilson who is a nice guy, The balls didn’t run for Ronnie but that happens. He is however the best of all time
@Terry O Sullivan: think he could easily have set himself apart as the greatest of all time but chose to be edgy instead
Think he’s a natural elite achiever. In snooker this is translating to a great player and pure frustration, coming out in many ways. Should have spent a few bob on a sports psychologist a few years ago, and kept seen them