Steve Kerr has accomplished virtually everything in basketball.
Kerr won five NBA championships during his 15-year playing career, helping Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls win a three-peat between 1996 and 1998, before winning two more under head coach Gregg Popovich with the San Antonio Spurs.
Following his playing career, he occupied various roles in management and broadcasting before landing the Golden State Warriors head coaching job in 2014. In his first year in charge, Kerr led the Warriors to an NBA title. Golden State would make it to the Finals for five consecutive seasons, lifting the Larry O'Brien trophy three times. Kerr and the Warriors would add a fourth ring to their trophy case in 2022.
In 11-plus seasons with the Dubs, Kerr has managed a 599-343 regular-season record, and has missed the playoffs just three times. He is the second-longest tenured coach in the NBA, behind the Miami Heat's Erik Spoelstra (hired in 2008).
The Arizona product has even had success at the international level, coaching Team USA to a gold medal at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
Kerr won the NBA Coach of the Year award in 2016, and was named one of the 15 Greatest Coaches in NBA History in 2022.
On Sunday, the Warriors' bench boss added another prestigious award that has nothing to do with basketball.
Kerr Wins Oscar for Documentary
Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr is courtside
A documentary entitled "All the Empty Rooms", produced by Kerr, won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short on Sunday.
"ALL THE EMPTY ROOMS follows veteran CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman and photographer Lou Bopp as they embark on a seven-year-long project to document the empty bedrooms of children killed in school shootings. Hartman steps away from his heartwarming human interest stories and, unbeknownst to his network’s bosses, pursues a piece on absence, memory, and the unseen ripples of America's gun violence epidemic. As these senseless incidents claim more young lives than any other cause in America, these quiet bedrooms reveal truths more powerful than statistics ever could," a synopsis on the film's website reads.
"I think the more people who watch it, the more impact it will have. And that's the main thing for me — what I want is for people to act. I want people to be proactive with this issue, to address it and understand it," Kerr said after winning the Oscar. "My hope is that if people can address it and understand it a little bit, then they'll be more willing to act on it."
With the honor, Kerr became just the fourth NBA personality to win an Oscar. The late Kobe Bryant won the award in 2018 for Best Animated Short Film for "Dear Basketball." In 2022, Shaquille O'Neal and Stephen Curry won Oscars as executive producers for their documentary short "The Queen of Basketball", detailing the life and career of former college basketball star Lusia Harris.
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