Steve Kerr has his hands full on the court with the Golden State Warriors and at home as a dad of three kids: sons Nick and Matthew and daughter Madeleine.
Steve and his wife, Margot Kerr, are college sweethearts who married while he was playing for the Cleveland Cavaliers and had kids not long after, starting with Nick, followed by Madeleine and Matthew. The family of five is close and sees one another as often as possible between their busy work schedules.
When the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the U.S., they returned to live under the same roof, something Steve was thrilled about. In a 2020 interview with the Runnin’ Plays podcast, the Team USA basketball coach said the situation was “total chaos” but added, “We’re enjoying every second of it because we don’t get this time.”
While reflecting on their unique marriage and family, Margot told In My Court how grateful she feels for their children. “We somehow hit the lottery with our kids,” she said in 2021. “I can’t believe they turned out so well. I really can’t. I mean, I want to pinch myself.”
Here’s everything to know about Steve Kerr’s kids: sons Nick and Matthew and daughter Madeleine.
Nick Kerr
Steve and Margot welcomed their first child, Nick Kerr, in 1992.
When Nick was a baby, the family moved around a bit due to Steve’s NBA career. Three weeks after Nick was born in Ohio, Steve was traded from the Cleveland Cavaliers to the Orlando Magic. Once settled in Florida for about a year, Steve got sent to the Chicago Bulls in 1993, and the family moved to the Midwest city where Nick grew up.
Like his father, Nick has always shown an interest in basketball. In a 2015 interview with WCC This Week, he shared that one of his first basketball memories was going to his dad’s games, recalling one of the finals when they let him go on the court. Steve added that Nick was going to games at just 1 year old and would sit on Margot’s lap, “mesmerized by the action.”
Two years later, while speaking to East Bay Times, Steve said they share a special bond because of the sport, saying, “He was on my shoulders when we celebrated the championship in ‘96 at the age of 3 and a half. One of my favorite memories … He’s obsessed just like I am.”
Nick started playing basketball as a child, Steve told WCC This Week. He learned a lot from Steve, playing basketball in high school and then getting recruited for college basketball at the University of San Diego, later continuing at the University of California, Berkeley.
Still, Nick focused on the game instead of exceptions. “He’s never put any pressure on me, either, even as a player,” he told AP News in 2024 of his dad. “When I was in middle school, high school, college, I was never trying to live up to his legacy. I was trying to be myself, which is good, because that’s a hard one to live up to.”
After college, Nick made the switch from playing to coaching, something he said in a 2017 interview was a career he had “always thought about” growing up, ultimately deciding it was what he wanted in college. “It’s really fun to stay around the game and influence other players, try to get them better as well as the fun part of being part of a team and trying to win,” he explained.
In 2023, Nick was named the head coach of the Santa Cruz Warriors after spending two seasons as an assistant coach. He was previously a video coordinator for the Golden State Warriors for about three years, per his LinkedIn, later crediting his dad for the “connection.”
While seeing him in action, Steve admitted to feeling different emotions. “It wasn’t so much nerves, it was more just pride,” he told AP News in 2024. “It was just a great visual sitting there watching him on the sidelines and I yelled at the refs a couple times. I felt like a good dad.”
Steve and his son Nick’s bond has developed over time. Nick told WCC This Week that they’re “just friends now,” saying, “I guess he’s past the point of parenting where we’re just friends and talk to each other,” adding that they’re “really close.”
On the personal front, Nick married his wife, Kendall Kerr, in September 2021, but he keeps details about his life off the court private.
Madeleine “Maddy” Kerr Hyde
Steve and Margot welcomed their second child, daughter Madeleine Kerr, in 1995.
After growing up in Chicago, Madeleine (who also goes by Maddy) moved to California for college in 2013, where she went to the University of California, Berkeley, according to her LinkedIn.
The next year, Steve accepted his current job as coach of the Golden State Warriors, and in an interview with SFGate, Madeleine said her family “followed” her to college. “We’re a super close family,” she added.
Like her father and older brother, Madeleine is an athlete: She played volleyball in college and was team captain. In 2016, Madeleine told Berkeley News she learned a lot from her dad’s leadership style and tried to emulate his way of speaking with team members. Though she admitted she wasn’t as patient as Steve, she considered herself “feisty and outspoken” like Margot while playing on the court.
However, Madeleine didn’t pursue a career in sports: She earned a bachelor’s degree in media studies and rhetoric at Berkeley in 2017 and studied law the next year. Madeleine later graduated from Berkeley’s School of Law in 2021 and became an attorney that November.
During an appearance on The Good Quality podcast, she said she didn’t realize she was interested in law until she started studying it, then got an internship at a law firm and found she enjoyed it. According to her LinkedIn, she is now a lawyer working as a strategic transactions and licensing associate at the law firm Gunderson Dettmer.
In terms of her support system, Madeleine has stated before that she is close with her family. “It’s kind of embarrassing how much we hang out with our parents, probably three to four times a week,” she told Berkeley News about her and her siblings. “My parents are really cool, they’re honestly our best friends.”
In August 2022, Madeleine married Francis Hyde. While her own Instagram account is private, her younger brother Matthew shared a photo of the happy couple on his Instagram, writing, “I couldn’t be happier!!!”
Matthew Kerr
Steve and Margot completed their family with their third son, Matthew Kerr, in 1998.
Unlike his father and siblings, Matthew wasn’t drawn to sports and only played soccer when he was 4 years old, according to Madeleine.
“He’s like my dad, who was an outlier in his family because he was an athlete,” she told Berkeley News in 2016, noting that Matthew got more of their mom’s artistic side.
“He’s a very great writer, very artistic,” Nick said about his younger brother in a 2014 interview with SFGate. “He writes screenplays. He’s real smart, way smarter than the rest of us.”
Matthew attended USC film school, where he studied screenwriting and comedy TV writing. On IMDB, he’s credited for his work on Onward, Clone High and Ted Lasso.
In a 2021 interview with The Athletic, Matthew revealed that he had met Jason Sudeikis at a Golden Warriors-Brooklyn Nets game a handful of years prior, and the two kept in touch while he was in college. Around the time he graduated from school in 2020, the actor offered him a job as a writing assistant on Ted Lasso for season two.
“I’ve felt very fortunate to be along for the ride and have the ride be pretty damn exciting,” he said of the experience.
The youngest member of the family went on to say that while he doesn’t talk about who his dad is until the subject comes up naturally, he does look up to him.
“He’s always been incredibly supportive, and of my sexuality, and he’s been open about social issues,” he said. “I love him and he has always been just an embodiment of that.”
Matthew is also the only one of his siblings with public social media accounts that he’s active on, like Instagram and X. His Instagram includes photos of himself with his friends, boyfriend and family alongside clever captions.
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