You can imagine the scene on the Warriors’ flight back to the Bay Area, the day after losing Game 4 in Houston as they started to ready themselves for the big push to close their epic series against the Rockets.



Players resting. Coaches huddled together. Strategies discussed. Tape played and rewound and played again.



And Steve Kerr and a few fellow soccer fans going out of their minds watching Liverpool’s incredible 4-0 victory over Barcelona on May 7 to make up a three-goal differential and move onto the Champions League final …



“We’re all kinda like, holy shit, are you watching this?” Kerr told me Wednesday, recalling the moment on the plane. “When they scored the third one, it was like bedlam.”



Wait. What? I didn’t know Kerr was a such big soccer fan. But in the aftermath of Liverpool’s victory, Kerr sent out a tweet that bounced around the world, perfectly framing his joy by referencing...