What Was Steve Kerr Doing at the DNC? More Than Meets the Eye.
SlateSteve Kerr is an excellent public speaker. During Donald Trump’s presidential term, Kerr was one of a few hoops coaches—along with the San Antonio Spurs’ Gregg Popovich and NBA journeyman Stan Van Gundy—who became widely circulated voices in Democratic moderates’ resistance to Trump. While Popovich called Trump “a soulless coward,” Kerr had the pleasure of leading the first championship team to publicly skip a White House visit during Trump’s administration. As the political commentator Tim Miller said around the time Kerr was onstage, “I don’t understand how this is helping Kamala beat Donald Trump. There is a nonzero chance that a member of “the Blob,” the D.C. foreign affairs establishment, will now be more inclined to write a policy paper for Harris because she has Kerr’s unambiguous backing.