As Congress prepared Wednesday to certify the electoral college vote count, confirming again the victory of President-elect Joe Biden, Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr started his morning on the other side of the country with something else drawing his attention.
How his team would defend Lou Williams later that night without fouling the crafty Clippers guard?
“Suddenly, that didn’t seem quite as important when I turned the TV on as shoot-around was beginning,” Kerr said.
The images showed violent supporters of President Trump storming the U.S. Capitol, which forced lawmakers to flee to safety, left a woman dead following a shooting inside the building and spurred a day of demonstrations, but no postponements, across the NBA — a league where such displays have become commonplace, though never in response to events as extraordinary as the attempted disruption of a peaceful transfer of power.