OAKLAND, Calif. — Steve Kerr is involved in just about everything but the actual game-day coaching for the Golden State Warriors — film session, coaches meetings, game-planning and practice.

He’s just not yet ready from a health standpoint to be back on the bench with the start of the NBA Finals a week away.

Kerr was there as his team returned to practice following a two-day break after completing a four-game sweep of the Spurs on Monday night to improve to 12-0 this postseason. Warriors GM Bob Myers noted that “just having him in the building and around is very powerful.”

The 51-year-old Kerr underwent a procedure May 5 to repair a spinal fluid leak stemming from complications after two back surgeries in 2015, after the Warriors won their first championship in 40 years during his first season as coach.

Kerr returned to practice May 13 after more than three weeks off the court, and he hasn’t coached the Warriors on the bench since Game 2 of the first round against Portland. He then traveled for the Western Conference finals to San Antonio and has been watching games from behind the scenes, speaking to the team beforehand and during halftime. Acting coach Mike Brown has been leading Golden State during Kerr’s absence.

It’s unclear how well the latest procedure worked for Kerr, who missed the initial 43 games last season dealing with debilitating symptoms.

“Unfortunately this has been a two-year odyssey,” Myers said. “He’s never tried to sugarcoat how he feels. Sadly, we’ve been dealing with this. So I can tell, and you guys are around, you see the ups and downs. … He’s not going to put himself or the team at risk and say that he can do it if he doesn’t feel like he can.”

Brown said he will continue to lead the way with reigning NBA Coach of the Year Kerr’s guidance until told otherwise. Myers doesn’t ask Kerr every day how he is feeling, rather allowing the coach to reach out with any updates.

Even Myers, a close friend of Kerr along with being a colleague, is struggling to appreciate the accomplishment by the Warriors given the coach’s heart-wrenching ordeal.

“Somebody asked me, ‘Is going to the Finals three times muted because of what’s going on?’ Of course it is,” Myers said. “This should be great. This should be unbelievable. And we are excited, and we are proud, but our head coach can’t coach. It’s not an excuse, it’s just a fact, and that sucks. But we deal with it, and everybody has been dealing with it and have met that challenge and have embraced it and will continue to do it.”