During his five years playing with the Chicago Bulls, the sharpshooting guard Steve Kerr was a huge part of the supporting cast for Michael Jordan.
The current Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr was detailed pretty heavily in the recent hit 10-part ABC/ESPN/Netflix documentary series highlighting the 1997-98 Chicago Bulls title-winning team called “The Last Dance”. But like so many others involved in this docuseries in some regard, Kerr had some critical feedback for the views that all-time great shooting guard Michael Jordan showed in The Last Dance.
Kerr was not given as bright of a spotlight in The Last Dance as the likes of former Bulls stars and Hall-of-Famers Scottie Pippen and Dennis Rodman got, but he was in that next group of significant figures in the docuseries. The likes of Kerr, former Bulls star big man Horace Grant, point guard BJ Armstrong, and Detroit Pistons Hall-of-Fame point guard Isiah Thomas, among others, were incredibly important parts of The Last Dance.
Moreover, Kerr wound up spending more years with the Bulls than any other NBA team. He played in five seasons with the Bulls, winning NBA Championships in three of them. Kerr also wound up winning two titles with the San Antonio Spurs once his run with the Bulls was over.
But the dissatisfaction that Kerr had with The Last Dance was put on display when he joined up with Bill Simmons on his podcast, and The Ringer network, late last week. The area of the docuseries where Kerr seemed to be the most upset was with the lack of exposure for certain key players on all of those great Bulls dynasty teams.
He specifically mentioned big man Luke Longley and point guard Ron Harper as examples of who deserved more coverage in The Last Dance since they were key parts of those title-winning Bulls teams in the 1990’s.
That does deserve some level of credence, but there were so many important figures on the different supporting casts that Jordan had in his run with the Bulls that you can’t zero in on everyone in something as short as a 10-part docuseries. Rodman and Pippen were the two most important pieces of the Jordan supporting cast in the Windy City in the late 1990’s.
In his five seasons playing with the Bulls, Kerr suited up in 378 regular season contests. He averaged 8.2 points per game, 1.5 rebounds, 2.2 assists, and 0.7 steals. And he did that while shooting a sparkling 47.9 percent from beyond the arc during his run with the Bulls.