Steve Kerr had a no good, very bad Wednesday, at least he would have if such a thing were even possible for the eight-time NBA champion, lauded for his success on the court and his eloquence off it.
First, his 106-win Dodgers crashed out of the playoffs in the most
Kershawian fashion possible. Then, Donald Trump, live from the Roosevelt Room in the White House, gesticulating wildly as ever, mocked Kerr for failing to speak out against China, amid the brewing enmity between the NBA and the country.
“I watched this guy Steve Kerr and he was like a little boy,” Trump began. “He was so scared to be even answering the question.”
“He couldn’t answer the question. He was shaking. ‘Ohhh ohh I don’t know. I don’t know.’ He didn’t know how to answer the question.”
“I watched this guy Steve Kerr and he was like a little boy...”pic.twitter.com/a8uJO22AS1
— Karl Buscheck (@KarlBuscheck)
October 9, 2019 “And yet he’ll talk about the United States very badly. I watched (Gregg) Popovich, sort of the same thing but he didn’t look quite as scared actually. But they talk badly about the United States but when it talks about China they don’t want to say anything bad.”
“I thought it was pretty sad, actually…”
He’s getting pilloried.
One of the faces on avant-garde of the NBA’s progressive front, Kerr doesn’t have a word for China, notorious for a past and
present of human rights violations.
The takeaway is that Kerr, and his NBA colleagues, are cool with the blood money they earn from selling their product in China.
There’s only one problem.
If Kerr’s a fraud, then so are you — the person reading this on an iPhone
likely made in China.
It’s not just the NBA who does business in China. We all do, in ways both big and small.
