Kerr owns up to deleted tweet: It was meant to be a DM
Steve Kerr is blaming his mishap on technology.
The Golden State Warriors coach found himself in hot water late Thursday night after tweeting and promptly deleting a post calling the NBA's rule enforcement "an embarrassment."
He took accountability for the mistake, which occurred on his second day using his new iPhone X.
"A friend DMed me and said, 'What do you think about this clip?" And I responded to him, and hit send. I was like 'Oh no,'" he recalled to reporters Friday.
Kerr said he immediately asked player development coach Chris DeMarco to help him delete it since he hardly uses Twitter and didn't know how. The bench boss estimates the tweet was pulled within 30 seconds. The damage was done, however, as some had already grabbed a screenshot of it.
"Oops. Fortunately, it wasn't anything too damning," Kerr said, before refusing to actually comment on officiating.
He also made a joke about being hacked - a move Draymond Green resorted to two years ago when he accidentally posted a photo of his privates on Snapchat.
"I know better than to criticize anyone for that," Green told ESPN's Cassidy Hubbarth.
Stephen Curry playfully chimed in saying his coach's error "won't die down in our locker room too quickly."
All jokes aside, at least it wasn't another burner account.