SAN ANTONIO _ Andre Iguodala made headlines late Friday night in Minneapolis, ending an interview loaded with racial undertones by saying, when asked about Steve Kerr resting him in San Antonio that: "I do what master says."
To many, it came off as a direct (and racially charged) shot at Kerr. But Iguodala often uses cryptic language in interviews, tweets and conversations. When asked about Iguodala's comment on Saturday, Kerr downplayed it.
"You guys got Andre'd," he laughed. "You got Andre'd. Andre is one of those guys who likes to stir the pot and has a lot of cryptic messaging at times, jokes around. I didn't take anything from it. Just Andre being Andre."
After making the comment, Iguodala told ESPN that it wasn't meant to be a shot at Kerr and was only an inside joke. Kerr said he'd heard Iguodala say similar things in private.
"Sure, yeah," Kerr said. "Like I said, Andre is extremely intelligent. He sees a lot of the hypocrisy in the world and expresses his displeasure in strange ways at times. He said what he said. I don't think it meant a whole lot. But he has to answer that question, what he meant by that. I wasn't offended by anything he said personally."
