Steve Kerr: the moral compass at the heart of the Golden State Warriors

The NBA coach has won three championships in the Bay Area. But his most important contributions go beyond basketball

Basketball was the furthest thing from Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr's mind before his team's playoff game against the Dallas Mavericks on Tuesday night.

Hours earlier 21 people, including 19 children, had been killed in a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. It followed shortly after a self-described white supremacist terrorist was charged with killing 10 people at a supermarket in Buffalo. Kerr, his hands and voice shaking, wavered between anger and devastation as he refused to speak about basketball and instead highlighted the political dysfunction that has helped such slaughter become all too common in the United States.