The best basketball player in the world also happens to be one of the most well-known people in the world. On Sunday, LeBron James stood on stage with Hillary Clinton in an attempt to rally his fellow Ohioans to vote for her. Three days later, after Clinton had lost, Warriors coach Steve Kerr, the leader of possibly the NBA’s most interesting team ever, ripped President-elect Donald Trump, ranting that “the man who is going to lead you routinely used racist, misogynist, insulting words.”
Football, the most popular sport in the country, is a different story. The NFL’s greatest active coach, Bill Belichick, sent Trump a handwritten note that, despite Belichick’s statements to the contrary, had all the familiar signs of an endorsement.