Steve Kerr rails against Donald Trump’s travel ban

While other NBA head coaches generally stick to basketball, Steve Kerr has emerged as a respected voice in public discourse. On Sunday night, after the Warriors' 113-111 win over the Trail Blazers, he was asked about President Trump's recent executive order banning immigrants from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen from traveling to the United States. "If we're trying to combat terrorism by banishing people from coming to this country, by really going against the principles that this country is about and creating fear, it's the wrong way to go about it," said Kerr, whose father, Malcolm Kerr, was assassinated in Beirut in 1984. Kerr isn't especially active on social media, but he recently retweeted messages in back-to-back days that condemned Trump's executive orders to begin building a wall along the border with Mexico and indefinitely suspend the admission of Syrian refugees. In the past, he has spoken about such subjects as medical marijuana, gun control, national-anthem protests, presidential elections and Middle East policy.