Coach Golden State Warriors stands for bullies such as Donald Trump. Hopefully, others in the NBA will follow the example.
Head coach Steve Kerr of Golden State Warriors looks during the second quarter game against Portland Blazers on April 11, 2025 in Portland, Oregon.
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Golden State Warriors Steve Kerr’s head coach finally saw enough. After playing the game of his team against Memphis Grizli, he arrived at a press conference after the game In the basketball T -shirt in Harvard. Kerr made the wardrobe as a prelude to talk about the threat of Trump administration to put a university that preceded the American Revolution for almost 150 years when he wants billions in federal funds. Unlike Colombia, some of the most prestigious law firms in the country Washington Post. Los -egeles TimesAnd many other August institutions, Harvard – after several concessions – decided to give up the kiss of the Trump Mafia. Before you accept questions about the thumb of Stef Cur said “I believe in academic freedom. I think it is important for all our institutions to cope with their own business as they want – and they should not shake, said why to tell our government. This is the most stupid thing I have heard, but it’s on the course. Yes, I support Harvard.
Kerr has the history of the opposite right autocracy. He heard himself during the first Trump administration when he joined his teacher and coach Gregg Popovich Conversation Against the president he saw early as a threat to democracy and decency. However, when the Pop coach went after a stroke (he’s correcting!), Kerer was quiet in this second, much more vicious and openly fascist Trump administration. He said nothing, joining almost all his league. Players who were so open during Trump and still chose silence.
Talking to the players, I identified three reasons why they did not publicly criticize Trump. The first is physical security, both for yourself and for their families. No professional athletes are subjected to NBA and WNBA basketball players. No player wants to look for weapons that are controlled when the fans storm the court. The second reason is that the players, unlike 2020, do not believe that the league will be institutions. NBA commissioner Adam Silver and the franchise owners are just more progressive than their NFL colleagues – now either compatible or accomplices with the oligarchic purposes of this administration. When the player acts without organizational support, they are afraid, as one of the retired players told me, about “getting stones”, slang for a shot, as well as a link to Colin Copernicus, a NFL defender, expelled from work for opposition to racist police.
The third reason is to feel difficult to think about the risk of generation. Compared to 2020, not to mention 2016, wages have exploded. Today, the contract with the middle figure deserves yawning for the middle -level star. This is the result of inflated TV rights packages for the transfer of addiction and gambling services. Money is more than if -something, which means a greater risk. Why fight for the player’s power to have more impact in the league direction if you can afford to become part of a group that can acquire a team? Unprecedented in previous generations, this is now the purpose for several high -class players.
It was before that Ker opened his voice again. Kerer, of course, has a different background than your typical NBA coach. His father, Dr. Malcolm Kur, was president of the US University in Beirut. Dr. Kerer believed that education, understanding and complex Western racism could help bring justice and peace to the region. It made him a threat and killed two killers. The Islamic Jihad group has claimed responsibility. If he had not been killed, Dr. Kerer would be widely known today as an influential scientist in the Middle East, the work of which deserved a praise from generation of scientists, including Edward, who, in fact, founded Palestinian studies in the US. Instead, the Association of Research in the Middle East, an academic organization of more than 2,700 scientists, names the annual award for Best dissertation after Dr. Malcolm Ker. This same association of research in the Middle East condemned Israeli genocide in gas In “the strongest opportunities”.
These are Steve Ker’s actions: speaking to racism at home and abroad and stand for “bullies”, the right -wing autocrats. Now the question, especially when we enter the Play -of season in the NBA, is whether some players or coaches can pick up the Torch Ker and there is something to say. This league, the popularity of which was built – and continues to build – in general black players, players who have spoken in racism in the past. In 2020, they even went on strike after the shooting from Jacob Blake to Kenosh, Wisconsin. Given the approval of Trump in police violence, attacks on black employees in the federal government, erasing black history in schools, stated intention from parasites that fall Trump as Chris Rufi to overturn the law on civil rights 1964No lack of stands for players. Is this an open question, but it always starts with one person. Courage can be contagious, but you need to be a zero patient. Last time, It was the coach pop. Now it is coach Ker. During these play -of we will see whether his words are noted by the beginning of political infection, or he will be quarantined with tricky sports media and a terrible league.
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At a time when elite universities, powerful law firms and influential media are Trump intimidation, the nation is more determined than if -earlier to take into account the powerful account.
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