Steve Kerr, Marcus Smart exchange words as tempers flare between C’s, Warriors originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston
Calling all lip readers: What was Steve Kerr saying to Marcus Smart during a heated exchange in the first half of Wednesday’s Boston Celtics-Golden State Warriors game?
Golden State’s head coach appeared to be scolding Smart after a sequence of plays in the second quarter at the Chase Center, one of which left Warriors star Steph Curry injured in the process.
The plays in question: Smart dove for a loose ball, getting entangled with Curry and forcing him from the game with a lower body injury; and a second play, a foul on star Klay Thompson which was ruled a flagrant foul.
The Warriors staff was upset with both of these Marcus Smart plays. First one was a roll up of Steph Curry’s leg that has him currently in the locker room, second ruled a flagrant on Klay Thompson. Kerr was telling refs to review both plays, mimicking a leg chop to officials. pic.twitter.com/6edSJxQszv
— Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) March 17, 2022
The Warriors have since announced that Curry won’t return to tonight’s game.
The whole sequence also got Draymond Green all fired up, who earned a technical foul late in the second.