Listen to Steve Kerr. We can’t stick to sport and ignore gun violence

Sports might be silly games, but people notice when suddenly the leader of the most popular team refuses to talk about those games.

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May 25, 2022 - 5:11 PM

Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr talks about gun violence during a news conference before Game 4 of the Western Conference Finals on Tuesday, May 24, 2022, in Dallas. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group/TNS)

LOS ANGELES — Steve Kerr knows about terrorist attacks.

He lost his father 38 years ago in a terrorist attack.

Steve Kerr knows that what happened in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday afternoon was another terrorist attack.

Except that this time, the terrorists are us, and there’s seemingly nothing we will do to stop them.

“I’m not going to talk about basketball … any basketball questions don’t matter,” the Golden State Warriors coach said to begin his news conference Tuesday night before Game 4 of the Western Conference finals in Dallas against the Mavericks. “Since we left shootaround, 14 children were killed, 400 miles from here. And a teacher. And in the last 10 days we’ve had elderly Black people killed in a supermarket in Buffalo, we’ve had Asian churchgoers killed in Southern California and now we have children murdered at school.”

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