NEW ORLEANS — The NBA world has descended upon New Orleans this weekend for the All-Star Game. Twenty-four players comprise the two rosters. Four of the weekend’s biggest names are Warriors: Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, Draymond Green and Klay Thompson.
But the team’s private jet brought along another of the league’s biggest newsmakers: Steve Kerr, the Western Conference coach, who has emerged as a leading voice on social issues during one of the most polarizing times in the country’s history.
All in the last nine months, Kerr has spoken up about the Colin Kaepernick kneeling controversy, spoken out against Donald Trump’s insensitive rhetoric, advocated for stricter gun control laws, suggested the use of medicinal marijuana over pain pills and slammed Trump’s travel ban on seven Muslim-majority countries.