Audio: Talk to the Suns - Kerr discusses D’Antoni’s future

Steve Kerr joined Jon Bloom on the final edition of “Talk to the Suns.” Let’s cut right to the chase, as I’m not sure anyone is interested in rehashing the painful Spurs series. So, when asked whether the Suns would allow other teams (i.e. Chicago, New York) permission to talk to Mike D’Antoni about their head coach vacancies, Kerr said “no, no, Mike’s our coach.”

This seems to run contrary to the recent SI report by Jack McCallum, who suggested that the “A” scenario is another team asking permission to interview and then hiring D’Antoni, a situation similar to the one a couple years ago, when GM Bryan Colangelo and the club parted ways. Then again, Kerr didn’t seem to think the article had much basis in fact to begin with:

“I was in total shock, frankly (about the SI report). When we got on the plane in San Antonio, somebody pulled it up online, and it was startling, because nothing had been brought up by anybody.”

Kerr said he then talked to D’Antoni about the report:

“Mike and I spoke and Mike said ‘no, that’s not true.’ It seemed very strange, Jack McCallum, the guy who wrote the book (7 seconds or less) about the Suns was around San Antonio the last couple of days. For him to write that, when it’s not true, doesn’t make a lot of sense.”