NBA: Steve Kerr on Michael Jordan, Chicago Bulls and fear of faliure

Steve Kerr is known as the coach that led Golden State Warriors to three NBA Championships, but during his playing days he too was a three-time NBA Champion and it came with the team led by legendary Michael Jordan i.e Chicago Bulls.

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Steve Kerr's Bulls Journey 

A journeyman throughout his playing career, Kerr joined Chicago Bulls during the first year of Michael Jordan's first retirement after playing for teams like the Cleveland Cavaliers and Orlando Magic.

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Speaking about his growth as a player, Kerr in his interview for a US show said joining the Bulls after they had just won their first three of six titles under coach Phil Jackson made him grow up fast.

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He said that if he hadn't gone to the Bulls, he would've just been another player who made the NBA which he would have been thrilled with.

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He also added that he didn't even think that was possible. But going to the Bulls put the spotlight on him and the entire team, and then it put them in position to play games of importance. Kerr said that 'When you play games of importance, you find yourself tested like you've never been tested before." And that's where he really learned his lessons.

Kerr played in 78 playoff games over six seasons with the Bulls, coming off the bench and set a then-NBA record with 72 regular-season wins in 1995-96. Jordan led the Bulls back to greatness after he returned from a baseball-filled retirement in 1995, and Kerr said he might have learned his most valuable lesson of all from Jordan.

He said that the thing that he took from Michael Jordan was that you go for it every time. You never worry about failure. The GSW coach said that he had worried about failure the whole life. So up until his time with the Bulls, he was afraid of being that, and then he realised Jordan took all these big shots -- he missed half of them.

The 54-year-old coach said that he would see Jordan go for shots and miss, and he'd go into the locker room and it was no big deal. The next game, two nights later, he'd take the same shot, and that made an impact on him and made him realise that he had to get over his fear of failure, and just go for it and lay it out there.

Golden State Warriors 2019 season so far 

Currently, Kerr has a big task ahead of reviving his team's fortune after a poor start to this year's NBA season. With the absence of Steph Curry (broken left hand), Klay Thompson (left ACL rehab) and Draymond Green (torn ligament in left index finger) and the host of veterans who left this offseason, D'Angelo Russell and Eric Paschall have so far taken the responsibility of Warriors on their shoulders.