Steve Kerr had spinal leak in back, remains out indefinitely

Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr hopes he can put his injury behind him soon.

Kerr, who underwent back surgery on July 28, told reporters Sunday in Oakland about the complications that led to the delay in his recovery.

"I had a spinal fluid leak during the first surgery," Kerr said, according to ESPN's Ethan Sherwood Strauss.

"It's very rare, it does happen occasionally, but it happens when there's an accidental nick of the dura that surrounds the spinal cord. But I lost spinal fluid, took about a month to figure out what was going on, a lot of headaches, some other symptoms."

Kerr went under the knife again on Sept. 4 to fix the spinal leak and subsequently missed most of training camp. Assistant head coach Luke Walton has been running the Warriors' practices in Kerr's place.

There's still no timetable for the head coach's return.

"It's a matter of your body sort of re-calibrating," he said. "Unfortunately, it's not like a sprained ankle, one-to-two weeks. There's no telling. It's a little bit open-ended, but everyone's confident I'm going to be fine."