Kerr to be named next Suns GM: By Jerry Brown / East Valley Tribune

[V2M]

May 31, 2007
Kerr to be named next Suns GM
Jerry Brown, Tribune
Steve Kerr will be announced as the new president of basketball operations and general manager of the Suns within the week, an NBA source with knowledge of the situation said. Mike D’Antoni will keep his title as executive vice president of basketball operations in addition to his coaching duties.

The source said current vice president of basketball operations David Griffin will decide tonight whether to stay with the Suns or take a similar position with the Grizzlies. The Suns want Griffin to stay and would probably give him a raise and another title. Griffin would also keep a lot of the duties for which he is currently responsible.

Kerr’s move into the front office would take a lot of the strain off D’Antoni who is not only the Suns coach but an assistant for Team USA.

Kerr is currently a minority owner in the team and a close friend of Suns owner Robert Sarver

A five-time NBA champion and 15-year veteran as a player, Steve Kerr, returns to the organization where he began his professional career.

Kerr was the Suns’ second selection in the 1988 NBA Draft (50th overall) after a four-year career at the University of Arizona. He is the league’s all-time leader in career 3-point field goal percentage, with a .454 mark (726-1599). He played his rookie season in the NBA with Phoenix in 1988-89.

Kerr won three NBA titles with the Chicago Bulls (1996, 1997 and 1998) and was a member of two San Antonio Spurs NBA championship teams (1999 and 2003). Kerr, who retired after the 2002-03 season, appeared in 910 regular season games, averaging six points, 1.8 assists and 1.2 rebounds per contests.

This past season Kerr was an NBA analyst for Turner Sports and worked in the Spurs broadcasting booth.

Kerr, who was born in Beirut, Lebanon on Sept. 27, 1965, earned his degree in general studies from Arizona in 1988.

He and wife, Margot, have three children, Nicholas, Madeleine and Matthew.

[chumdawg]

Good for him. I expect him to do well.

[DubOverdose]

I expect him to ruin everything. If his job as GM is anything like his reporting, it will be a disaster for at least 2 years.

[Flacolaco]

Yeah....it could go so south.

But hey, Kerr knows what championship teams are all about. He could mean some serious disaster if you're a mavericks fan.

I like him, but I hope he fails at this. The Suns are too scary as it is.

[spreedom]

He printed one of my e-mails once, so as a person, he passes my test.

As an analyst however, he just seems like a huge bandwagoner to me. If he isn't actually broadcasting games, does he do anything more than just reading boxscores?