{"id":629884,"date":"2026-04-25T11:45:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T11:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/629884\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T11:45:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T11:45:19","slug":"warriors-reportedly-grew-tired-of-steve-kerrs-political-activism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/629884\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors reportedly grew tired of Steve Kerr\u2019s political activism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whenever\u00a0Steve Kerr<\/a> publicly expresses a political opinion, he opens himself up to criticism from online comments sections, the Oval Office and even the Warriors\u2019 front office.<\/p>\n

According to multiple reports, some people at the top of Golden State\u00a0\u2014 perhaps one person, but more on that later\u00a0\u2014 have\u00a0not been too happy with his political commentary. Kerr has been a vocal critic<\/a> of President Donald Trump<\/a>, openly supported the \u201cBlack Lives Matter<\/a>\u201d movement and has been a staunch advocate<\/a> for gun control<\/a> (which is deeply personal to the head coach, given his family history<\/a>). This information comes amid uncertainty about whether Kerr will return to coach the Dubs next season.<\/p>\n

The first mention of this came from ESPN\u2019s Marc\u00a0Spears, who appeared on 95.7 The Game<\/a> on Tuesday and touched on this when asked why\u00a0Kerr would consider leaving the Warriors. After noting that Kerr understands \u201cthe weight of the job\u201d in the way he speaks out about political and social issues, Spears said, \u201cAnd I\u2019ve heard a little bit that maybe he\u2019s being stifled a little bit in that regard.\u201d<\/p>\n

When host Mark Willard asked him who \u201cstifled\u201d the coach, Spears said he wanted to \u201cdig deeper\u201d on that topic to confirm it. But when Willard again pushed on Spears to say who, the veteran sports reporter just looked at the camera and smiled without saying anything. To really drive home the point, Dan Dibley filled in the blank and said, \u201cRight. Like maybe somebody who, I don\u2019t know, signs his checks, if they still do that, or is in charge of his direct deposit.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Spears did not directly confirm the person in question was owner Joe Lacob, as Dibley heavily implied, he continued on this topic. Using Kyle Korver\u2019s \u201cBlack Lives Matter\u201d jersey in the Orlando COVID-19 bubble as an example, Spears spoke highly of Kerr as an example of a white man using his voice to amplify the struggles of people of color. But not everyone is as supportive of what he\u2019s done.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have heard that maybe, maybe there\u2019s some people that are tired of his voice,\u201d Spears said. \u201cIf that is true, then maybe that\u2019s something that could add to Steve\u2019s fatigue as well, because he\u2019s a great man. He\u2019s not just a great white man, he\u2019s a great man, he\u2019s a great human, and he cares about other people. So I don\u2019t think he would compromise that.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo if that is true, that people want him to be a little bit more quiet, I\u2019m sure that might not sit too well with him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then, on Thursday, Nick Friedell of the Athletic published a report<\/a> that also noted this internal storyline, which has apparently been talked about over the past year.<\/p>\n

\u201cLeague and team sources said throughout the season that Kerr\u2019s desire to speak candidly on social and political issues has at times caused internal frustration,\u201d Friedell wrote in a story headlined, \u201cSteve Kerr can leave the Warriors, but can he leave Steph Curry?\u201d<\/p>\n

Whether that \u201cinternal frustration\u201d leads to a split between Kerr and the organization he\u2019s been with for 12 seasons will have to wait until next week<\/a>, at the very least.\u00a0An anonymous source told ESPN\u2019s Anthony Slater<\/a>, \u201cIt\u2019s April. We don\u2019t need to rush.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whenever\u00a0Steve Kerr publicly expresses a political opinion, he opens himself up to criticism from online comments sections, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,288679,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-629884","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sfgsports","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}