5 time NBA World Champion
A five-time NBA champion and 15-year veteran as a player, Steve Kerr, returns to the organization where he began his professional career.
Kerr was a Suns’ second selection in the 1988 NBA Draft (50th overall) after a stellar four-year collegiate career at the University of Arizona. Kerr, who is the league’s all-time leader in career three-point field goal percentage, with a .454 mark (726-1599), played his rookie season in the NBA with Phoenix in 1988-89.
Kerr won three NBA Titles with the Chicago Bulls (1996, 1997 and 1998) and was a member of both San Antonio Spurs NBA Championship Teams (1999 and 2003). Kerr, who retired after the 2002-03 season, appeared in 910 regular season games, averaging 6.0 points, 1.8 assist and 1.2 rebounds per contests.
This past season Kerr was an NBA analyst for Turner Sports and worked in the Spurs broadcasting booth.
Kerr currently serves on the Board of Directors of Boys Hope Girls Hope of San Antonio.
Kerr, who was born in Beirut, Lebanon on Sept. 27, 1965, earned his degree in general studies from Arizona with emphases in History, English and Sociology in 1988.
He and wife, Margot, have three children, Nicholas, Madeleine and Matthew
