Less than a week had gone by since the Golden State Warriors lost Game 7 of the Finals, and head coach Steve Kerr was going all-in on police shootings and the need for sensible gun control.
After talking at length about the playoffs, Game 7 itself and everything that flowed forth in its wake, Kerr pivoted in a podcast interview to a topic that is both painful and personal for him. In January 1984, his father, Malcolm, then the president of the American University of Beirut, was assassinated on campus by two gunmen.
After yet another rash of high-profile, police-involved shootings this past summer, Kerr used whatever platform offered to him to make his voice heard. "The rest of the world thinks we're insane," he told Tim Kawakami of the San Jose Mercury News. "We are insane."
On Friday, Kerr again used a podcast platform, this time with CSN Bay Area's Monte Poole, to speak his mind on a societal issue, specifically the use of medicinal marijuana in treating chronic pain. Kerr admitted he tried medicinal pot last year when he was recovering from complications related to his offseason back surgery.
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