Steve Kerr Once Said He’d Take LeBron James Over Anyone In A Game 7 On The Road

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You have to be careful about what you say on social media, especially if you’re a public figure. You can delete questionable posts after the fact, but more often than not some internet hero out there got a screengrab of it for posterity’s sake. Even the most seemingly-innocuous statements can come back to haunt you. That’s exactly what happened to Steve Kerr today.

Back in 2014, when the now-Warriors coach was still a TNT analyst, he tweeted out the following comment to his legion of followers.

That statement’s turning out to be rather prophetic (or ominous, depending on how you look at it). After their Game 6 loss to the Cavs on Thursday night, during which LeBron James played arguably the game of his career, his Warriors are facing that precise scenario. Only Kerr doesn’t have the luxury of having LeBron on his side. What he does have on his side, however, is history. No team has ever come back from a 3-1 deficit to win the NBA Finals.

Then again, LeBron and the Cavs have bucked the trends and made all sorts of history this series, like when he and Kyrie Irving became the first teammates to score 40 points apiece in the Finals or how the Cavs became the first team in 50 years to force a Game 7 after climbing out of a 3-1 hole. We’ll find out just how fortuitous that tweet was once things tip off at Oracle Arena at 8 p.m. Sunday on ABC.

(h/t SI.com)

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