For the Warriors’ two SoCal kids, Klay Thompson and Steve Kerr, there’s a little something extra about facing the Boston Celtics in the NBA Finals.
Kerr grew up in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, watching Magic Johnson and the Lakers face off with Larry Bird and the Celtics in the Finals three times during the 1980s.
“I was sitting literally in the last row of the Forum when Kevin McHale took out Kurt Rambis and changed the series,” Kerr said at Wednesday’s media session, recalling the famous 1984 series that Boston won in seven games.
