Summer Olympics: Team USA basketball coach Steve Kerr reacts to playing time controversy

Steve Kerr has guided Team USA to back-to-back blowout victories at the Summer Olympics in Paris, but back home, the coach is facing backlash.

Stephen A. Smith hammered Kerr on ESPN’s First Take on Friday for not using Jayson Tatum in the Americans’ 26-point win over Serbia in their first game last weekend.

Smith said Kerr’s rotations have created problems and that not using Tatum was “insulting” to the Boston Celtics star who recently led his NBA team to a championship.

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