Warriors coach Steve Kerr: “It’s shameful that the government can come out and lie about what happened when there’s video and witnesses who have all come out and disputed what the government is saying.”
Appreciate that Steve Kerr always speaks out about things like this.
Pop’s disciples are all over the NBA.
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He’s also a disciple of his own pop, assassinated in Lebanon.
Seriously tho. People wonder why Kerr is so outspoken and it’s because he’s been thru some serious shit.
And hold the same beliefs despite what happened. It would be easy to become racist or actively against the Middle East but he won’t. Speaks to how he was raised
His senior season at Arizona, Kerr was taunted by Arizona State fans prior to their rivalry game with chants about his father’s death….only to get himself together, went 6⁄6 from 3, and finished with 22 points in a 101-73 victory. The following week, Arizona State’s AD sent a letter of apology to Kerr.
Dude has always been a top-notch human being who rises above most of the BS in the world to speak his mind clearly and thoughtfully.
The really messed up part is when the ASU student section was chanting derogatory remarks when he lost his dad while in college
Steve could have went down a very different path. Holding hate and contempt for Islam and the Middle East in general bc of his father’s murder, radicalizing him.
You are not wrong, just wanted to point out Kerr has a very interesting background which formed him as a human. Google his dad.
Just needed to comment that after looking into Kerr’s dad, his grandfather was also a MASSIVE BADASS. Stanley Kerr treated a ton of Armenians in Aleppo fleeing the Armenian Genocide.
Thanks for the assist!
Steve Kerr did a talk at a Berkeley once, and I attended. One of the questions he was asked was about his grandfather’s work. During his response, he mentioned that his grandfather is so revered there, anyone who has the last name “Kerr” is automatically treated with gratitude just because they assume they’re related to him.
his grandparents too. They were aid workers who sheltered Armenians during the genocide.
Damn, thank you for that - truly inspiring that he speaks confidently the truth and advocates for peace.
Wow. Did not expect the two sentence wiki summary to end with “until he was assassinated by gunmen in 1984.”
What an interesting read. Thanks for that.
Kerr’s worldview was probably pretty well established by the time he was with Pop thanks to who his dad was and what happened to him. They probably just were already on the same page on a lot of things.
They sure ain’t Phil Jackson’s
Phil is a racially charged and horny devil lol He does not listen to his better angels
Popovich’s coaching tree isn’t just about ball movement and spacing; it’s about having a functional spine. It’s the strongest branch in the league.
I do too. Considering his family history, it makes sense that he would speak up on issues like this.
Kerr had an insane childhood, cant imagine losing your father to murder at such a young age, let alone while living in a war torn country
And to live with the knowledge that his assassination was almost assuredly political, absolutely unfathomable
And it was Americans while he was in college chanting about his fathers death while he was playing at Arizona. This country has always been full of hateful beasts. He’s no stranger to its fuckery.
ASU sucks
Steve was in college in the US when his dad was killed. If you watched the Last Dance, he talks about being pulled out of class or a practice to find out the news.
Exactly. Malcolm Kerr was assassinated for his beliefs. Steve has more firsthand experience with the consequences of political violence than the politicians lying about it.
As a fellow SAIS alum I’m always so proud to Malcolm Kerr is my colleague
Kerr is one of my school’s (SAIS) most distinguished alums in my eyes. Might not have the political or military pull of others but he fucking lived and died on his word, the best we can ever hope to do. So glad Steve took all those lessons to heart
His family is something I know nothing about. Guess I’ll go for some reading
Read up on his grandparents! They’re real human heroes.
Yep hate the warriors, but he’s a real one. When others duck questions (nothing really wrong with that, nothing to do with basketball) Steve says what he feels is right. Have to respect it
wish pop were healthy enough to voice this too
Honestly I think everyone should be rooting for a Spurs title because you know he’d show up to the White House and say some wild shit to Trump in person in the Oval before ordering The Admiral to cunt punt him out the window.
Probably the only team I think I’d want to go to the White House after a title.
They wouldn’t even visit the White House. No NBA team does when Trump is president because he’s a piece of shit.
At least one league got it right
why not more coaches and high profile athletes? (aware the nfl crowd won’t necessarily agree with kerr’s statement here)
how can one enjoy watching basketball or sports in general as usual when nazi gestapo activities are taking place. straight up being carried out in broad daylight, and anyone speaking out and standing against it is labeled as a domestic terrorist – by your own government.
It’s tough out here man. I am shocked and appalled by things I see and hear daily from this administration and it’s been really difficult for me to realize that there’s not a consensus amongst my peers, family members, and community on a lot of these horrors. It’s disorienting and sad.
Best thing about him. He takes the right stand many times. Not easy to do in that position especially with how polarized america is
He seems like such a good dude and he clearly has a spine. We need more people like him speaking out on these things.
Me too. Hate the Warriors for obvious reasons but hell yeah go Steve!
Honestly this is one of my favorite qualities of his. 99% of coaches in any sport shy away from commenting on things like this. Steve never does though
Absolutely agree with steve kerr…half the american population is hallucinating.
It’s more like 15-20% IMO, they’re just incredibly obnoxious about it.
Within that 15-20% are billionaires that control the vast majority of the information and media. Then influence so many others here and overseas.
The billionaires aren’t the ones who are fooled by the lies. They are the ones doing the fooling.
And they’re tearing down dozens of institutions to make sure that over time, that 15-20% expands into a majority of people who willingly vote against their best interests, that is assuming the US still has elections in the future.
We’re in the Smash n’ Grab phase. We only know what’s being reported. There’s a whole bunch of shit happening behind the scenes that we won’t ever know about until this administration is over.
Who woulda thought I’d find sane people in this thread
Trump’s approval rating doesn’t dip below like 37% no matter what he does. It’s a cult. 15-20% is absurdly optimistic. Beyond his enablers own most of the mainstream media allowing them to be quite a propaganda mouthpiece.
The actual percentage voting in the 2024 presidential election are the following:
Did Not Vote: 35.9% Voted for Trump: 31.9% Voted for Harris: 31.0% Voted for Others: 1.2%
And now the assumption is that he’s lost at least a little so I’d GUESS it’s probably something more like 28-29% just spitballing.
You can get 30% of american to say they approve of anything. Its pretty rare for polls to have a number below the 30s unless there is huge unsure/idk segment in it
Poling isn’t a great way to accurately gauge how he’s actually viewed. It’s always important to know who did the polling, and when & how the data was collected.
Questions can be worded to push for certain results, the time of day and location they canvas can push the results, and with some of these polling organizations being owned by billionaires, fabricated results are also a possibility.
Taking them at face value is dangerous.
He’s won presidential elections twice.
That shows he has a massive enough base, and complicit people who didn’t care enough to show up and vote against him.
That we have evil people in this world isn’t news, even that they rise to positions of power in dictatorships and the likes…. but that people actually go out and elect them…. all those that didn’t vote against him share responsibility for the nonsense happening and the evil yet to come.
Especially knowing who he was since 2016 and still voting for him.
Approval ratings usually use aggregates not individual polls.
Also like… he won the popular vote. I realize voting isn’t mandatory but way more than 20% of Americans like him.
Idk why people are trying to play damage control. Let’s face it, a lot of Americans approve of Trump. We got a lot of dummies in the country.
Nah its double that trust me and all they have to do is convince just 5-8% more and thats how they’ve been winning the elections
More people didn’t vote than voted for either candidate in 2024.
not voting is the same thing as saying youre fine with either option
I get the sentiment, but it’s not the full answer. Election blocking happens all over the place in urban districts.
We had 60% voter turnout in 2024. That’s down from 66% in 2020, but still well over half.
23% voted for trump
Fwiw, this number is also a bit misleading because voting age and whatnot. But yeah, 23% of people who could vote at the time. Unfortunately, there are more radicalized offspring becoming voter age.
15-20%???
150,000,000 Americans sat by and either directly or indirectly let Trump be President even after a disastrous first term: failed tariffs, failed economy, failed healthcare, failed foreign policy, rampant corruption. Also the project 2025 was public for anyone to read. Combined with 30 years of constantly public lying and scams.
His party controls; The majority of governorships. The majority of state AGs. The majority of state congresses. The majority of federal house. The majority of federal senate. The majority of the SCOTUS. The majority of law enforcement. The majority of the military. Every major news media organization across “legacy media” as well as new media. Every major corporation.
Yet somehow we’re still using “oh it’s just a loud minority!” as our cope?
No. This is exactly who the majority of Americans are. There’s zero evidence to support that this isn’t a direct mirror of America and it’s values.
See this is why although there is plenty of sketchiness around the election (the bomb threats called into major blue locations on election night come to mind among other issues) I don’t believe they outright stole the election, I genuinely believe enough of us were either duped, awful, stupid, or some collection of all 3 to properly elect his dumbass twice, incumbent governments everywhere were tossed out, not just the US, we just got one of the dumber and angrier results, and while I hope there’s still somehow a non-violent way back out of this, I honestly don’t see the climate calming down enough regardless of what happens to prevent it, even if trump and his whole admin got sucked into a pocket dimension forever or something, it doesn’t erase decades of division and hatred between the major party voters, most people in the US at this point (and this includes myself, I’m not above criticism) aren’t just mad at the government, they’re raging at each other on a fundamental level that’s going to be nigh on impossible to reverse at this point. I wish I had a solution to propose to not be seen as a full on doomer but man, for the past 10 years, left v right hasn’t been a disagreement on how taxes are spent or how much is collected, it’s been disagreements on human rights, on killings, on threats of invasion leveled at allies and enemies alike, on whether or not x group of americans want to kill other x group of americans or not, it’s getting to damn “Balkan Powder Keg” levels.
And Russian bot fueled
I think a large portion have to be foreign actors. Over in r/conservative I think its an echo chamber of probably 80% russians/etc and 20% actual deranged Americans. It’s hard for me to fathom just how far those people are removed from reality. Most Republicans I knew were nothing like that. Maybe its just wishful thinking and a ton of people are just that messed up in the head. God knows the leadership/government actually is that way.
went home and left my bubble of educated yuppies and learned that no, its way more than 15-20%.
It’s about 30%, but the electoral college gives full control of the country to them.
it’s slightly deeper than the electoral college. the house is capped at 435 members regardless of population gains. it’s been that way since 1929.
the electoral college is 538 votes; 435 house districts+100 senators+3 for washington DC.
uncapping the house would do wonders for democracy in the usa.
Look at Trump’s approval number it’s more like 35-40%. And a few percent more wins you an election since half the country couldn’t bother to vote
Yeah, a lot of them are israeli and indian bot accounts if we’re being real, but they confirm the biases of those 15-20% and embolden them
FR holy shit. NPR gaslighting me today in an effort to sound “balanced” talking about how it’s unclear what happened, etc etc…
I’m like FUCK YOU people, it’s literally all on video.
I was half-listening to local news today talking about the Portland shooting and the anchor said “DHS said the victims were in Tren de Aragua but the Portland police chief said they didn’t know anything about the victims.”
What the anchor left out was the Portland police chief saying THAT THERE’S NO RECORDED HISTORY TREN DE ARAGUA ACTIVITY IN PORTLAND.
The amount of propaganda that’s being forced down our throats on behalf of this regime is still genuinely shocking to me every day.
its called flood the zone, inundate the information space with so much info very few can reasonably parse fact from fiction
The crazy part is the Portland Police aren’t exactly known for their restraint and honesty, so if they’re calling out DHS’ story as a fabrication…
liberal/centrist outlets that overcorrect trying to appear “impartial” are an incredibly damaging force for misinformation
Honest. If you watch that clear video of that innocent woman get murdered and your news source doesn’t say she was murdered, then its time to change the channel.
It’s not even hallucination. They just straight up don’t care what the truth is as long as they get their way.
It doesn’t matter your opinion on what she was doing, it’s ridiculously stupid to set a precedent where punishments are decided in the street rather than in a court of law.
They’re not hallucinating.
They’re assholes. They get off on seeing others suffer and then lying to your face about it.
It surely helps hearing people with a bigger presence speak out, at least I can stop questioning my sanity this week, seriously.
They excused raping children they’ll excuse anything
Steve’s always been awesome on these issues.
Tbf the bar is really low in this industry for speaking out with common sense
Ok but nobody here is comparing Kerr to the rest of the industry
I love when athletes and coaches are educated on issues and willing to speak out, but it shouldn’t be an expectation. They play a game for a living. We as Americans shouldn’t be looking to them to be leaders on social and political issues, anymore than we look to any other random job.
Kerr is willing to speak up when he understands an issue or has personal experience. That’s awesome. But if another coach isn’t informed, he doesn’t need to say anything.
I actually forgot about that. His dad was also a huge advocate for human rights (as we fucking all should be)
Ya it’s actually a pretty meaningful geopolitical event in Cold War history as it kinda marked a new sectarian phase in cold war conflicts and the beginning of a horrible period of civil war in Lebanon.
/r/nba not make everything about Draymond challenge
impossible
Half the country is a cult of personality and cant think for themselves
good chunk of that halfs the south, US is still paying the price for Andrew Johnsons sins
I live in a blue state in New England I know so many people right here
and where do think it comes from? the intentional failures of reconstruction under the Johnson admin and the unwillingness of Johnson to properly punish the planter class of the South
A lot of it comes from Old people who all they do is watch TV and get brain washed by Fox news.
My Dad is a Trumper and he would literally fall asleep to fox news every night growing up. I don’t know a single left leaning person who does that, but you see so many conservatives with their propaganda networks running 24⁄7.
And the sins of abandoning the Reconstruction post Civil War which let racism run rampant despite black people being freed from slavery (legally).
Wouldnt have had to abandon it if it had been implement properly, but thats part of the failures of Reconstruction, Johnson intentionally implemented it in a way that was doomed to fail
Nowhere near half, they want you to think they have bigger numbers than they do
They’re pretty pumped for the killing to start too because they aren’t critical thinkers. They’re sure they’ll go out with their gun and headshot everyone like in their fantasies.
There’s really people out there who trust the word of a pedophile over their own eyes.
And the word of people who hang out on a website whose AI produces 6,000 CSAM images A DAY
We are on a website where admins were defending a pedo moderator.
Blatantly lying to everyone about something that we can all see on video is despicable.
People’s ideology determine what their eyes see. It’s just a sad time
“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command… and if all others accepted the lie, which the party imposed, if all records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth”
Edit: The guy right below this comment posted literally the exact same quote but it bears repeating. It’s all of our job to hold the truth now.
Narcissist’s prayer is also applicable
That didn’t happen. And if it did, it wasn’t that bad. And if it was, that’s not a big deal. And if it is, that’s not my fault. And if it was, I didn’t mean it. And if I did, you deserved it.
In this case, Vance literally said, essentially, “she deserved it”
There it is. Verse 6 of the prayer.
Well we are approaching the End Game here. They’re tearing down the WH, starting Imperialist wars, threatening to attack our own allies, employ a Gestapo secret police, and are hoping to enact Martial Law so they can cancel an election.
I suppose it makes sense we’re on the final line of the narcissist’s prayer.
“War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength”
Yup go check out a certain sub of people who lean to the right. The mental gymnastics they go through is insane. Fuck ICE
i can’t tell what is a bot. poisoned minds in that sub.
“if she just complied”.
god forbid anybody uses their brain and questions “maybe i’m fucking wrong”. too hard when their identity is so delicate and based on myths of this country.
They simply don’t believe they’re lying about anything. They genuinely are not trying to sit there and think “we have to lie about this”. They believe they MUST defend anything and everything from the people that follow them and are “on their side” because they can’t be wrong and let the libs “win”. It’s scarier than just them purposely lying and gaslighting
Letting Jonathan Ross even stand trial means admitting that the citizens of blue states and blue cities have rights that they’re bound to respect. They can’t tolerate any limit on their power.
(And it would absolutely destroy the morale of ICE agents to see one of their own get punished for something the government and Twitter are frantically encouraging them to do)
they doubled-down hard by calling her a domestic terrorist while the body was still warm and now it’s too late to take that back. this is the bed they’ve made. hopefully eyes are finally starting to open
They lie because they know Trump supporters are stupid enough to believe it. Every Trump supporter is a goddamn idiot who literally can’t use their own eyes and ears to see the truth of what happened in Minneapolis. If you see someone with a Trump hat,bumper sticker, etc ,etc, it really says “I’m a complete and utter idiot.”
If you go to “that” sub you’ll see them actually calling the lady a domestic terrorist and deserved to be shot dead. It’s insane how their minds are so twisted and brainwashed.
If it makes you feel better. Maybe only 10-25 real people are over there actively commenting and being convinced they are part of a community. They probably never received any education or parenting that focused on critical thinking skills and deserve pity and guidance if they ever do.
The rest are all just chat-gpt agitator bots.
I remember growing up and America was basically the epicentre of the world, the place to be. Now, its president is threatening to invade allied land and its government is mocking the death of a innocent woman shot by a federal agency
The “don’t tread on me crowd” not so surprisingly supporting masked federal agents killing an unarmed civilian was DEFINITELY on my 2026 bingo card
Saw this shit coming from his first administration…
They were never interested in that, they just wanted to be the boot
it’s all “states rights” this and “small government” that when they don’t have majority control. and when they do, it’s “spread em and open wide”
Now its ‘tread on me harder, daddy…’
“Tread on me harder, Daddy”
The thing is this is not the US anymore. This is the Technate of North America.
Our neo billionaire class wants to revive the technocracy movement and people are still blind and ignore everything.
Love the political commentary u/Nympho_BBC_Queen
I feel like a crazy person saying this but there really is a billionaire pedo techno-Nazi conspiracy to destroy individual liberty in the name of racial purity.
Definitely true. One thing that scares me is the recent deal the US made with the corrupt Nigerian government about medical data.
They give the US their whole population’s medical data over a 50 year span and get 2.1 billion in aid.
Musk and his Nazi friends already fear monger about “Nigeria having more births than Europe combined”.
The sudden interest in their medical data is interesting.
They will definitely use said data for nefarious reasons if it comes to population growth control.
growing up and America was basically the epicentre of the world
Yup…this is called “American exceptionalism” and it was all a facade.
If you’re a 90s kid/millenial and you can remember watching School House Rock on VHS where you learned “how a bill becomes a law” or about “checks and balances,” well…that shit is all gone.
We are straight up living under an Authoritarian government/Dictatorship but with extra steps just because the Judiciary and Legislative branches still exist but they don’t actually do anything other than exist when they impose zero checks on the Executive (and in the case of the Supreme Court, do the opposite and basically give the President immunity for anything deemed an “official act).”
The founding fathers are rolling in their fucking graves, that’s for damn sure, and saying that the Republic that we knew is long gone is no longer hyperbole.
Yup…this is called “American exceptionalism” and it was all a facade
Exactly. Some people lost their minds when Trump got elected the first time, saying he was making the US look ridiculous, corrupt and/or evil. To the rest of the world, it was exactly the same as before. Many people in the US simply saw their own country as everyone else has seen it for like a century now. Leaders of the free world my fucking ass. People were just living isolated inside a pretty bubble.
Threatening to invade allied lands, and using an ever-expanding definition of “domestic terrorist.” They’re at war with anybody in the way of their power and control
I remember growing up and America was basically the epicentre of the world, the place to be
It was never that, always been an imperial country they were just more sneaky with it
You’re right but it’s arguing past the point - the US soft power regime for almost a century was alluring for people to migrate to. Even amongst “enemy” nations diaspora. We can talk at length on the lie of the land of opportunity but what has changed is now no one wants to migrate to the US or see it as the peak nation of the world.
You were lied to growing up
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
They do it because half the country is of the same stupid mentality who just straight up lie and don’t care
70 million voted for it. It blows my mind.
It doesn’t blow my mind more than half the people don’t got a functioning brain
I would say something but it’s reddit
Think how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that
This is what happens when your education system is shit
I think a pretty large chunk got tricked by the insane media/social media coverage of that election tbh. They didn’t believe that Project 2025 and the concentration camp stuff was real. They thought it would be like his first term where there was a lot of drama and crime but he was surrounded by a lot of institutional Republicans who restrained his worst instincts and (until 2020) the country was mostly stable. They didn’t realize they were getting a government of coked out Nazi podcasters who think we need a dictatorship to save the white race from Somalia.
Lol those guys are idiots than it was pretty obvious what he was gonna do.
Fascism is a feature to them.
Remember when we were called hysterical for falling Trump a fascist?
It’s really like 35 percent of the country that is fully brand-on-hide in the cult and utterly committed. They are a minority, which is why their actions are so desperate. They are committed to minority rule, and there are more of us than there are of them.
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Fuck ICE. Fuck JD Vance. Also fuck Greg Abbott
You forget that weasel Stephen Miller
The worst
Fuck em
forgot kristi noem
fuck ice
Fuck Donald Trump. Fuck ICE. And fuck all who support either of the two.
Fuck this facist state we live in.
Go fucking play in quick sand and don’t bother leaving a note if ya support either. I’ll take a ban. Won’t be the first.
Basketball won’t exist if Trumps cabinet continues their death march.
Edit:
I’m being asked why the orange spray painted fucking idiot has to do with basketball.
He loves to control. He controls universities via threats of no more support. He has openly told huge universities they will receive no more support if they don’t commit to his demands. I’ll post links but I’d love to go to bed.
If you are not aware of Donald Trumps grasp on fucking everything I encourage you to learn and not be a brainless goat.
The worst part is, American main stream media is the worse source of information for the public.
Ironically Reddit is a good source of facts because it’s one of the last to be censored.
Fuck ICE
The people who are acting like she deserved to die are sickening.
Propaganda and politics have destroyed all of their moral compasses… for any of those who had one in the first place.
Keep speaking out.
Times like this calls for solidarity.
Respect for Kerr to speak out.
Kerr is the realest.
Literally 1984.
Bots are out in full force
Fuck Donald Trump
It’s also shameful that some people in the government are failing to acknowledge the constitutional rights of the victim (a US Citizen ) who was murdered by an immigration officer who had no legal jurisdiction to detain her.
Steve so darn real.
Unless its about China, then suddenly he is spineless.
Just like the majority —if not all— of the left, they pick and choose whatever is popular at the moment
Yup was real weird how he had to clam up on China, said he needed more time to research and never followed up.
I appreciate steve!
Kerr W
If we don’t speak out we are all toast
I really miss Coach Pop’s press conferences. He rightly called out the government’s behavior every single time he was in front of the camera.
My social justice king!
I think Steve is the most consistent NBA personality who actually speaks up about all the crazy happenings of current regime. No quiet compliance like 99% of the league.
Something about how the government has handled this I just couldn’t put into words. Yeah, it makes me angry but Steve hit it right on the nose. It’s demoralizing that the government lies when we have the entire encounter on video from multiple angles. We have dozens of eye witness accounts corroborating the video. And Trump and his cronies come out and say, “don’t believe the video, don’t believe the witnesses, believe only what we’re saying.” And it’s demoralizing they do this but even more demoralizing that half the country rolls over and refutes what they can see with their own eyes and ears and instead believes liars and conmen.
Good job Steve. I don’t always agree with you in basketball sense but good job using your platform for the best
This guy says what reddit thinks.
america sucks now fuck trump
Kerr keeps it a buck for political stuff but when it comes to draymond is blind apparently
to be fair, one matters far more than the other
Common Steve Kerr W
Kerr’s a real one on stuff like this
Always been a good dude.
Steve Kerr watched those videos as closely as the Draymond punch video
Crazy I remember him supporting the lie about Jacob Blake
Lies should be called out.
well steve, it’s actually worse than shameful, it’s a criminal conspiracy.
My thing is like, even if you love ICE and have lost your humanity, how can you ever say killing her was justified? I’ve seen people say like ‘she was mocking them so she deserved it. “. Ok at least you’re honest, but if you think they were in danger, you are just wrong.
Still trips me out he named his son Nick.
Just by saying this, this one basketball coach has shown more backbone and integrity than the entire US government and every ICE agent put together.
It’s insane to me how clear the evidence is that this was an extrajudicial execution, with multiple videos proving this was completely unjustified, yet somehow people are hallucinating a completely different scenario. The newest video shows with 100% certainty this man’s life was not in jeopardy when he made the decision to execute a woman and then call her a bitch as she died.
FUCK ICE
Is there any other coach in major sports that is actually enough of a real man to speak out against convicted rapist and felon donald trump?