Furious Steve Kerr storms out of news conference after controversial late call

Steve Kerr slammed a controversial late call as the Warriors crashed out of the NBA Cup to the Rockets.

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00:00I've never seen a loose ball foul on a jump ball situation 80 feet from the basket with the game

00:06on the line. I've never seen that. I think I saw it in college one time 30 years ago.

00:15Never seen it in the NBA. Loose ball diving on the floor 80 feet from the basket

00:24and you're going to give a guy two free throws to decide the game when people are scrambling

00:28for the ball. Just give them a timeout. Give them a timeout and let the players decide the game.

00:33That's how you officiate. Especially because the game was a complete wrestling match.

00:40So you've established you're just not going to call anything throughout the game. It's physical

00:44game. We're going to call it a loose ball foul on a jump ball situation with guys diving on the floor

00:50with the game on the line. This is a billion dollar industry. You got people's jobs on the line.

01:00Our guys battled back. Played their a**es off and deserved to win that game or at least have a chance

01:05for one stop at the end to finish the game. And that was taken from us by a call that I don't

01:14think an elementary school referee would have made.

01:16Any benefits of not playing until Sunday? I mean three days off has been a pretty frenetic schedule.

01:21I'm not ready to answer that question. I'm f****d off. I wanted to go to Las Vegas. We wanted to win

01:25this cup and you know we aren't going because of a loose ball foul 80 feet from the basket

01:37with the game on the line. I've never seen anything like it in my life and that was ridiculous. Thank you.