Warriors’ Steve Kerr apologizes to local Giants fans for Dodgers fandom – NBC Sports Bay Area & California

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Steve Kerr won’t hide his love for the Los Angeles Dodgers, much to the chagrin of Bay Area sports fans.

Kerr, who grew up with the Dodgers, is currently enjoying his team’s impressive World Series run.

“I might be,” Kerr said Monday on KNBR’s “Tolbert & Copes.” “We don’t have to talk about that (laughs). I feel like a lot of people are just trying to get me in trouble around my fellow Bay Area fans for my Dodger fandom.”

Kerr spent a good portion of his childhood in Southern California, and those formative years of going to Dodgers games made him a lifelong fan.

“You can’t help it when you go to games as a kid with your dad, your brother, and you sit in the stands for 10 years straight, 15 years straight every summer,” Kerr told Tom Tolbert and Adam Copeland. “You can’t break that. It’s just in your blood. I just want to apologize to all the Giants fans. It is what it is.”

The Giants-Dodgers rivalry is one of the most heated in MLB, dating back to when both teams resided in New York. Los Angeles has been on an incredible run of postseason excellence over the past decade and appears poised to win its second World Series title in the last five seasons.

Meanwhile, San Francisco fans are hoping franchise icon Buster Posey can return the team to prominence after taking over as president of baseball operations.

Given Kerr’s incredible success with the Warriors and his recent Olympic triumph with Team USA, Bay Area fans won’t judge him too harshly for rooting for the white and blue.

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