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Steve Kerr was drafted by the Phoenix Suns with the 50th pick in the second round of the 1988 Draft and played for the Phoenix Suns, Cleveland Cavaliers, Orlando Magic, Chicago Bulls, San Antonio Spurs and Portland Trail Blazers. From 1995 to 1998, he completed three consecutive championships with the Bulls and won the championship with the Spurs in 1999. After winning another championship with the Spurs in 2003, Kerr announced his retirement at the end of the season.

Kerr is a 45 percent three-point shooter in career and is the league's three-point leader in 1990 and 1995, making him one of the best shooters in NBA history. Cole was a great shooter and a great mental fit during his time as a loanee, hitting key shots at key moments on a number of occasions.

In the 1988 NBA Draft, Kerr was drafted by the Phoenix Suns in the second round. After spending his rookie season with the Suns, Kerr was traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers in 1989-90. After three seasons with the Cavaliers, he was traded to the Magic midway through the 1992-93 season.

Early in his career, Kerr became known for his shooting and became the league's three-point leader in 1990 and 1995. In the 1994-95 season, the three-point shooting percentage was even higher, which was the highest three-point shooting percentage in a single season in league history.

In the 1995-96 season, the 30-year-old Kerr joined the Bulls and ushered in a career turnaround. In the regular season, Kerr played in 82 games, averaging minutes per game, with assists and rebounds. Shooting percentage, three-point shooting percentage, and free throw shooting percentage, ranked among the 190 club (shooting percentages from the three-point range, three-point range, and free throw percentage exceeded 190).

In the playoffs, Kerr became an important member of the Bulls' bench and ultimately helped the Bulls win the championship.

In 1996-97, Kerr continued to shoot consistently from three-point range, winning the NBA All-Star Weekend Three-Point Contest that season. In Game 6 of the Finals, the Bulls tied with the Jazz with 28 seconds left on the game. Michael Jordan drew the defense and passed the ball to Kerr, who hit the shot to help his team win and win the championship with a 4-2 win over the Jazz.

In the 1997-98 season, Kerr won the championship for the third time with the Bulls.

Kerr joined the Spurs in 1998-99 and won the championship in the playoffs that season. In the 2002-03 season, Kerr won the championship with the Spurs, becoming only the second player in NBA history to win two championships with two different teams. At the end of the season, Kerr announced his retirement, ending his career as a non-reliever.

In his career, Kerr hit 677 three-pointers. The shooting percentage ranks first in NBA history.

In 2004, Steve Cole commented on a contest in which the Ling people referred to Yao Ming as a "Chinaman," a term that was racist. The next day, Cole sent out a letter of apology. Cole said his mistake was not intentional, but simply out of ignorance.

He thought that "chinaman" could be used to describe Chinese in the same way that "frenchman" could be used to describe the French, but he did not understand that the term had a strong derogatory connotation.

Steve Cole's father, Malcolm Cole, was an American scholar on the Middle East and the Arab world, a former professor of political science at UCLA University, who spent most of his life in Lebanon. He was shot dead on 18 January 1984 by suspected racists.

Cole and his wife, Margot, have three children, named Nicholas, Madeleine, and Matthew. In the summer of 2007, Kerr announced that he was leaving TNT to join the Suns' management as the Suns' new general manager. During his tenure, Kerr made several big trades one after another, including exchanging Sean Marion and Marcus Banks for "Big Shark" Shaguille O'Neal, using Boris Dior, Laga Bell for Jason Richardson, Jarred Dudley, etc., but they all did not work well, and in the summer of 2010, Kerr announced his departure from the Suns.

Cole then returned to the role of a commentator and worked as a commentator on various television stations.

Steve Cole, a 1990 Pulitzer Prize winner for the New Leak of Revelations, traveled to Afghanistan from 1989 to 1992 as the Washington Post's South Asia director, and has been a Washington Post executive since 1998.