Watch Steve Kerr react perfectly to the Boston Boos

Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr has understandably come under fire from the Boston Celtics faithful.

As the head coach of Team USA in this summer’s Paris 2024 Olympics, Kerr essentially chose to relegate All-NBA Boston superstar power forward Jayson Tatum to a part-time role, to the point where he often wouldn’t even play the 6-foot-8 former Duke -product.

When the US men’s basketball team opted to send injured All-NBA Los Angeles Clippers small forward Kawhi Leonard home, the club decided to sign All-Defensive Second Team Celtics combo guard Derrick White ahead of his more well-rounded (but more offensively-inclined) teammate, All-Star Boston swingman Jaylen Brown. The Americans won gold medals for their efforts, but White was a bigger part of the cause than Tatum, whose jumper had left him in the postseason and wasn’t recovered until this season.

Kerr’s Warriors also handed the Tatum-Brown era Celtics a loss in their lone NBA Finals meeting together, 2022. Golden State hasn’t been back on the mountaintop since, losing in the second round of the 2023 Western Conference playoffs and missed the playoffs altogether in 2024. The reconstituted team is playing in its first season without Klay Thompson since he selected the five-time All-Star swingman in the 2011 NBA Draft, but is off to a great start so far this year.

Understandably, fans at TD Garden on Wednesday chose to let Kerr have it as he and his 6-1 Warriors went down, looking to hand the 7-1 Celtics just their second loss of the season, with Brown sidelined due to a long term hip injury. .

Kerr had the perfect response to the cool reception from the Celtics home crowd, greeting them with a stoic face and a wave of trolling (via Bleacher Report’s Instagram channel).

The Warriors currently lead the Celtics by double digits at the half, 51-40, after closing the second frame on a 9-0 run in its final 1:45.

White leads Boston in scoring at halftime as the club’s only player in double figures. He’s already registered 12 points on 3-of-9 shooting from the field (all his marks are triples, on seven attempts) and 3-of-3 shooting from the foul line, while grabbing three boards, dishing out a dime and grabbing a pair stealing in 18:02.

Wings Andrew Wiggins and Buddy Hield are currently the Warriors’ leading scorers with eight points each at halftime.

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