NBA: Top 10 candidates for Coach of the Year Award in 2017-18

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6. Steve Kerr

The Coach of the Year Award usually goes to the coach of a team with one of the best records in the NBA. If it were as cut-and-dry as going to the coach with the best record, Steve Kerr would be a three-time winner. Instead, the two-time champion won the award in 2015-16, when the team won an NBA-record 73 games during the regular season.

Apparently 67-win seasons weren’t quite enough, both in 2014-15 and in 2016-17. But with the Golden State Warriors possibly even better in 2017-18 and 70-plus wins in play, we can’t rule Kerr out of this race as one of the early front-runners.

What hurts Kerr’s case is people are already over the culture change he implemented for the Dubs. At this point, their success is just going to be chalked up to an insane amount of talent, which is fair. Kerr built the machine, but at this point, it’s well-oiled enough to be running on its own. That hurts his case here, unless the Dubs go and win 73-74 games or something like that.