Warriors’ Kerr labels US action on gun control ‘pathetic’ in emotional pre-game speech

• Golden State coach's father was killed by gunman in 1984
• Warriors were playing in Texas, hours after school shooting

Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr refused to talk about basketball before his team's playoff loss to the Dallas Mavericks on Tuesday night, instead delivering a passionate speech condemning gun violence in the United States.

His team played Game 4 of the NBA Western Conference final in Texas, where earlier in the day at least 21 people, including 18 children, had been killed in a school shooting. Kerr is a long-time advocate of gun control. His father was shot dead in a terrorist attack in Beirut in 1984.