Steve Kerr laments dangers of sports world fully embracing gambling amid scandal

The Warriors wouldn’t be blamed if they cited their hectic travel schedule for Friday’s 139-119 loss to the Portland Trail Blazers at Moda Center.But coach Steve Kerr refused to use that as an excuse, instead praising the Blazers for their performance.“The NBA schedule is … everybody deals with whatever comes your way and there’s a lot of difficult moments to the schedule, whatever,” Kerr told reporters in Portland after the loss. “But tonight was not about that. It was about Portland and what they’ve built and the length and athleticism and the style of play. They were brilliant. I would be embarrassed to sit here and blame fatigue when a team just came out and just took it to us.“It was about them and their great play and this city is really going to enjoy watching the Blazers because they play hard and they’ve got a real identity and they’re doing a really good job of rebuilding the franchise after the long run with Terry [Stotts] and [Damian Lillard] and CJ [McCollum]. It has been a rough couple of years but they’ve used that time wisely and built a really good...