When given the choice between coaching the Knicks and the Golden State Warriors, Steve Kerr ultimately did exactly what his mentor Phil Jackson always did: he picked the more talented roster.

You dont win all those titles by starting at the bottom. Jackson inherited Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen in Chicago and later walked into a Lakers locker room featuring Shaquille ONeal and Kobe Bryant. Kerr clearly learned from the best.

There were other factors. Kerr was concerned about working for James Dolan. He spoke to enough former and current MSG employees, including his long-time broadcasting partner Marv Albert, to compile a scouting report on the Garden Chairman. And coaching in Oakland does allow Kerr to be close to his daughter, who attends Cal-Berkeley.

It was just personal, Kerr said on Saturday. It was a lot easier to stay close to home, literally two miles from my daughter, who goes to Berkeley, and I got a team that has a lot of talent and a lot of great guys so it was a good choice.

And when asked if Dolans presence was a factor, the ever savvy, every classy Kerr gave the proper response.

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Nothing. None of that had . . . it was just I felt more comfortable with Golden State. It was just a better situation.

You can debate all day whether the Knicks would be better than 10-41 with Kerr as their head coach. He was a successful general manager with the Phoenix Suns before moving to the bench and he hired two terrific assistant coaches in Alvin Gentry and Ron Adams.

Similarly, who can say that the Warriors would have not been this good if Mark Jackson were still their coach?

What we have learned about Kerr is that hes his own man; the Jackson/Gregg Popovich protg is not running the triangle offense. He also doesnt fit the unfair stereotype that a soft-spoken guy who looks like an executive at Goldman Sachs cant get tough with a team.

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Londons Guildhall Art Gallery has just carried out a radical rehang of its Victorian collection. Its principal curator Julia Dudkiewicz explains why it reveals some striking connections between past and present

HOW is historic art of relevance to lives in the 21st century? What do Victorian pictures have to offer on contemporary social, economic and even existential issues?

When I was given the chance to rehang the Guildhall Art Gallery in the heart of the City of London, it became clear we would have to tackle these questions.

Art on the walls in the Square Mile in the public Guildhall complex needs to stand up to tough scrutiny but, more than that, it also needs to help open peoples minds as well as providing aesthetic satisfaction and historical authenticity.

Our collections centrepieces are the late Victorians and the amazing works we have in the Guildhall Art Gallery demonstrate in vibrant and exciting detail how the fine arts fundamentally changed in the 19th century.

Our modern forebears the Victorians were, like us, living through technological and social upheaval and artists turned to the reality of modern life as a main inspiration, departing from the long-standing tradition of representing scenes from history, mythology and the Bible.

So when we set about the first rehang since the gallery opened in 1999 we focused on everyday subjects such as work, leisure, love and the home, as well as beauty and image, faith and imagination.

Using these themes we aim to actively engage 21st-century visitors and challenge preconceptions about Victorian art being dated. To do so we changed 70 per cent of the roster of paintings, bringing many out of store.

The canvases highlight phenomena that form an integral part of life today, which many would not think originated in Victorian times. Examples are the concept of leisure and outdoor recreation, compulsory education, affordable fashion and home decoration or the advent of office work and clerical professions.

The Victorian period was dominated by the previous industrial revolution which started in Britain around 1760 and continued until the 1840s, making it then the strongest economy in the world. This particular revolution marked the transition to new and more efficient manufacturing processes from manual labour to machine production relying on water and steam power.

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