As Warriors coach Steve Kerr was driving to work ahead of Game 4 of the Western Conference semifinals series, his focus wasn’t on the Memphis Grizzlies, but rather on his cough, his congestion, and the cases of COVID-19 that had popped up at the team’s San Francisco facility.
As cases of COVID waned around the country, the NBA made testing for the disease — once mandatory and daily — an effectively voluntary practice. In February, Kerr had, like so many of us, stopped wearing a mask when he was at work, on the sidelines. No one actually likes wearing them.
But the mask was back on for Game 3 of the series on the first weekend in May.
