Warriors expect eventual Kerr return

Warriors general manager BobMyers fully expects Steve Kerr to find a solution to his debilitating health issues and return to the bench without being forced out of coaching altogether because of complications from two back surgeries. It just might not be right away. “Look, what he’s facing is fixable,” Myers said. “It’s just finding the issue and solving it. So I think that’s how you have to differentiate what he’s going through with somebody else. Some things are not fixable in life. Some things that confront people don’t have solutions. There is a solution here. We just need to discover it, and we will. I’m confidentwe will.”

Kerr, 51, plans to be examined at Stanford this week and is away from the team until he feels well enough to return. He didn’t coach theWarriors in Games 3 and 4 in Portland last week while dealing with symptoms that make him extremely uncomfortable.

Rockets owner fined: The league fined Rockets owner Leslie Alexander $100,000 for confronting a referee during live game action.

Byron Spruell, the NBA’s president of league operations, announced Alexander’s fineWednesday.

The incident occurredTuesday in the final minute of the first quarter during the Rockets’ 105-99 victory over the Thunder. Alexander got up out of his courtside seat and walked toward Bill Kennedy. Alexander than said something to Kennedy before turning around and heading back to his seat.

The Rockets eliminated the Thunder in five games. Party time: Cavaliers coach Tyronn Lue is throwing a TV watch party.

While the defending champions wait to see who they will play in the second round of the NBA playoffs, Lue has invited his coaching staff and “60 or 70” members of the Cavaliers organization to his suburban home Thursday night to see the Raptors play the Bucks in Game 6. The winner of the series faces theCavaliers inthe second round.

The Cavs’ team chef will be on hand, and Lue says 1,800 chickenwings—“fried hard, sauceonthe side”— havebeen ordered to feed the group.