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Warriors 4 promised NBA All-Stars moment

Golden State boss Steve Kerr says he will play his four Warriors players on the floor at the same time when he coaches in the NBA All-Stars game.

Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr
Golden State boss Steve Kerr says he will play his four Warriors players in the NBA All-Stars game. (AAP)

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Steve Kerr will find a stretch while coaching next month's All-Star game to get all four of his Golden State Warriors on the floor together.

"I am absolutely going to play them all four together," Kerr said Friday.

"Those four will be together for sure. I can guarantee you that'll happen at some point because that will be a pretty cool thing. It's very rare. ... It'll be fun at least for a couple minutes I'll get them all out there at once."

And centre Zaza Pachulia will be with them in spirit for the February 19 game in New Orleans.

The Warriors tied an NBA record with four players on the All-Star team - two-time reigning MVP Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant as starters for the Western Conference coached by Kerr, and Draymond Green and Klay Thompson as reserves.

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"That'll be really cool," Thompson said of playing with his three Warriors teammates in the NBA's mid-season showcase. "I wonder who the fifth player will be.

"That will be really awesome. It will feel like a real game and we can even run some sets. It's crazy. It's really a unique situation and it doesn't happen a lot for a lot of teams, so we're going to enjoy the heck out of it."

Only seven other teams, in fact.

Golden State, with the NBA's best record at 39-7, is just the eighth franchise to land four players in the All-Star game and just the second in the West. The Los Angeles Lakers did so in 1998.


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