“Sports is a refuge but not a hiding place from the world of violence.”
Golden State Warriors basketball coach Steve Kerr said that in an impassioned press conference right after the Uvalde shootings. Or someone retrieved an old quote to go along with his new press conference tirade about gun violence and Congressional inaction.
It doesn’t matter when he said it. The knowledge that Steve Kerr’s father, who in 1984 was the President of the American University in Beirut, was killed by a gunman, gives him creds beyond his basketball celebrity.
And what interests me is the confluence of sports and public affairs—and that of professional basketball and rez ball.
Someplace in the middle of Brothers on Three, Abe Streep’s book on the Arlee, Montana Warrior’s basketball team, there is the notion that the style of ball played by professional teams is growing close to that favored on reservations across the country: fluid and fast-paced offense off of relentless pressure Read The Article
