Golf’s role in Steve Kerr spurning Knicks in favor of Warriors | Golf News and Tour Information [Video]

“KERR PLUNK!” the headline on the back cover of the New York Daily News read today. The story was about Steve Kerr declining an offer to coach the New York Knicks while accepting the Golden State Warriors’ head coaching position.

So, what were the factors in rejecting an offer from NBA icon and Knicks’ president Phil Jackson? One of them was golf. Is there anything the game can’t do?

Kerr is a friend of Joe Lacob, the Warriors’ owner. “I’ve known Joe actually a long time through a mutual friend, a venture capitalist in the Bay Area,” Kerr told Tim Kawakami of the San Jose Mercury News. “So we’ve been on golf trips together.”

Lacob said virtually the same thing. “I knew him through friends — and through golf, quite frankly,” Lacob said in this USA Today story. “I’ve been on golf trips with Steve before, so I know him socially for many years.”

Kerr, who signed a $25 million, five-year contract to coach the Warriors, lives in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., …