Warriors-Kings Preview

Steve Kerr has five championship rings from his playing days, led a team to the conference finals as a general manager and called countless other games deep into the playoffs from his courtside seat for TNT. The Golden State Warriors are banking on that success continuing in the one NBA role he's yet to fill. Kerr makes his head coaching debut Wednesday night in Sacramento for a Warriors franchise that hasn't been beyond the second round in 40 years against a Kings team that would settle for simply slipping into the postseason. Fifty-one wins and extending the third-seeded Los Angeles Clippers to seven games weren't enough for Mark Jackson to keep the job he'd held for three years, a span in which Golden State won more playoff games (nine) than it had over the previous two decades (six).