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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Before the Golden State Warriors returned to the practice floor Monday following an extended break to grieve, they gathered to watch a tribute a world away in Serbia, where two teams in Belgrade celebrated beloved former coach and player Dejan Milojević.
The Warriors assistant coach died last Wednesday in Salt Lake City at age 46 after suffering a heart attack at a team dinner a night earlier.
“It’s a pretty terrible thing to witness,” an emotional coach Steve Kerr said at Chase Center.
Kerr estimated four or five players were at the restaurant and he was there along with other coaches and staff. He praised vice president of player health and performance Rick Celebrini for his poise, care and professionalism through the ordeal.
“Everybody on our team, everybody in our organization is traumatized,” Kerr said. “Part of life is you experience loss. Everyone is going to experience loss at some point in their life. But it doesn’t often happen in front of you. It doesn’t often happen to someone with kids and it doesn’t happen often where it’s someone who is so beloved worldwide. So everything that’s happened over the last five days has been just jarring, just incredibly emotional, powerful, and more than anything heartbreaking
Kevon Looney worked especially closely with Milojevi
“It’s been tough. Just trying to be around my family and teammates as much as possible, just remembering him, telling stories about him, things like that,” Looney said. “Not trying to run away from it, but trying to embrace it and talk about him and what I’m going through with people close to me.”