{"id":20584,"date":"2025-10-24T02:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T02:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/20584\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T02:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T02:07:08","slug":"warriors-coach-steve-kerr-praises-sf-mayor-daniel-lurie-over-trump-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/20584\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors coach Steve Kerr praises SF mayor Daniel Lurie over Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2025\/10\/23\/federal-agents-bay-area-immigration-alameda\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">On a day when protests<\/a> broke out in the East Bay over an influx of federal immigration agents into the region, Warriors coach Steve Kerr praised San Francisco <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2025\/10\/23\/san-francisco-trump-national-guard\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mayor Daniel Lurie<\/a> for his part in ensuring that a \u201csurge\u201d of personnel did not enter the city.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lurie announced on Thursday morning that after a phone call with President Donald Trump, that federal personnel would not come to the city.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Before the team\u2019s home opener against Denver at Chase Center in San Francisco, Kerr expressed admiration for the mayor in how he handled the situation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDaniel Lurie is an absolute superstar,\u201d Kerr said. \u201cWe\u2019re so lucky to have him leading our city. I think everybody who lives here has felt the rebound, and the city\u2019s heading in a really good direction. So many good things are happening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump also credited conversations with the region\u2019s tech leaders, such as Nvidia co-founder Jensen Huang and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, for his decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey want to give it a \u2018shot,\u2019\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/115424560133045127\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump said in a post on Truth Social<\/a>. \u201cTherefore, we will not surge San Francisco on Saturday. Stay tuned!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Customs and Border Protection squad arrived in Oakland earlier the same day, and were met with protesters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kerr is no stranger to making political statements.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The previous week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2025\/10\/19\/no-kings-protest-steve-kerr-warriors-donald-trump-san-francisco\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kerr had attended a \u201cNo Kings\u201d rally<\/a> in opposition of the Trump administration.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In April, the longtime Warriors coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2025\/04\/16\/warriors-coach-kerr-voices-support-for-harvard-during-feud-with-trump-administration\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wore a Harvard shirt<\/a> in a show of support for the university, which was under fire from the administration.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO \u2013 On a day when protests broke out in the East Bay over an influx of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[2454,184,7,7000,402,181,129,395,101,396,103,102,104,106,105,127,12200],"class_list":{"0":"post-20584","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bay-area","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-golden-state-warriors","12":"tag-inside-sports","13":"tag-latest-headlines","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-peninsula","16":"tag-san-francisco","17":"tag-san-francisco-county","18":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","19":"tag-san-francisco-news","20":"tag-sf","21":"tag-sf-headlines","22":"tag-sf-news","23":"tag-sports","24":"tag-warriors-hq"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}