Steve Kerr is so much more than a basketball coach.
The NBA and NHL playoffs went on as scheduled Tuesday night, but Steve Kerr clearly didn’t want to talk about his Golden State Warriors in the game tipping off in less than an hour.
He entered his pre-game press conference before his team was trying to advance to the NBA Finals and ranted over the school shooting in Texas that day, 400 miles from the game in Dallas.
Kerr proceeded to rip the 50 U.S. Senators who won’t even put universal background checks to a vote while 90 percent of Americans from both parties are in favor of such a law.
Kerr was a great shooting guard for Arizona, and Carolina fans may remember losing to the Wildcats in the 1988 regional final in Seattle, where every time he made a jumper their fans chanted STEVE! KERR!
What most of us didn’t know then was that early in his college career, Kerr’s father, serving as president of the American University in Beirut, was assassinated by Islamic Jihadists.
Even as a four-time NBA champion with Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls, Kerr has been a proponent against violence of all kinds — anything and everything that is wrong with the way this country is governed.
He said it is purely power keeping Republican Senators from voting on the HR8 bill for background checks already passed by the House of Representatives, alleging that “50 Senators are holding us hostage to hold onto power!”
Kerr yelled into the microphone, “When are we gonna do something? I asked you Senators who refuse to do anything.”
“I am so tired of offering condolences to devastated families, tired of moments of silence. I want every person to think about this happening to their children, grandchildren, mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers.”
He yelled again and banged the table as he walked out to coach his team that had a 3-0 lead over the Dallas Mavericks in the Western Conference finals.
He wasn’t just talking about the school shooting that killed 18 young students and three adults trying to protect them. He mentioned the recent shootings of elderly black shoppers in Buffalo and Asian churchgoers murdered in Southern California and now another horrific school massacre.
“We can’t get numb to this,” Kerr said “. . . hold a moment of silence and then say, ‘Go Dubs, C’mon Mavs.’ It’s pathetic. I’ve had enough.”
Steve Kerr on today's tragic shooting in Uvalde, Texas. pic.twitter.com/lsJ8RzPcmC
— Golden State Warriors (@warriors) May 24, 2022
Featured image via San Francisco Chronicle/Scott Strazzante
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