{"id":27650,"date":"2025-01-21T09:06:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T09:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=27650"},"modified":"2025-01-21T09:06:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T09:06:55","slug":"news-proud-democrat-steve-kerr-suffers-humiliating-nba-loss-after-ignoring-donald-trumps-inauguration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=27650","title":{"rendered":"NEWS: Proud Democrat Steve Kerr suffers humiliating NBA loss after ignoring Donald Trump&#8217;s inauguration"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"js-article-text\">\n<p>Warriors coach Steve Kerr opted to prepare for his team&#8217;s NBA game against the Celtics, rather than watch President Trump&#8217;s inauguration.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>But it didn&#8217;t help Golden State, which suffered its worst home defeat in four decades\u00a0 at the hands of Boston on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Kerr has long been an outspoken critic of Trump and he delivered a brutal speech in support of\u00a0Kamala Harris\u00a0at the 2024 Democratic National Convention.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, however, Kerr kept his focus on Boston rather than Washington, where Trump was sworn in for a second term.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I didn\u2019t watch the inauguration. I chose to watch Celtics tape,&#8217; said Kerr, who recently lost his childhood home in the Los Angeles wildfires.<\/p>\n<p>But that extra preparation could not prevent the Warriors from falling to a humiliating 125-85 loss to the Celtics on Martin Luther King\u00a0Jr. Day.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/01\/21\/04\/94334403-14307427-image-m-3_1737435258224.jpg\" alt=\"Steve Kerr xem b\u0103ng ghi h\u00ecnh c\u1ee7a Boston Celtics thay v\u00ec l\u1ec5 nh\u1eadm ch\u1ee9c c\u1ee7a T\u1ed5ng th\u1ed1ng Trump\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/01\/21\/04\/94325043-14307427-image-a-4_1737435554276.jpg\" alt=\"Trump and Vice President JD Vance were sworn in at a ceremony in Washington DC\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Steve Kerr: \u201cI didn\u2019t watch the inauguration. I chose to watch Celtics tape.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BOpTXMD1k1\">pic.twitter.com\/BOpTXMD1k1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dalton Johnson (@DaltonJ_Johnson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DaltonJ_Johnson\/status\/1881436285174444541?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 20, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Golden State had not lost by 40 points at home since January 15, 1985. But this defeat came less than a year after the Celtics dealt the Warriors a 140-88 pounding.<\/p>\n<p>Kerr made headlines for his comments about Trump at the DNC, when he taunted the then-Republican nominee and borrowed Steph Curry&#8217;s &#8216;night night&#8217; celebration .<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;As a coach and former player, as a husband, a son, a father, even a grandfather, and as an American, I believe in a certain kind of leadership.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I believe leaders must display dignity. I believe that leaders must tell the truth,&#8217; Kerr told the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Shouldn\u2019t you want those same qualities in your president?&#8217; he continued. &#8216;When you think about it that way, this is no contest.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Kerr then put his hands to his head and vowed that &#8211; after election night &#8211; &#8216;in the words of the great Steph Curry, we can tell Donald Trump: &#8220;Night, night&#8221;&#8216;<\/p>\n<p>In the end, Trump defeated Harris to earn a second term as president.<\/p>\n<p>The following night, Kerr sarcastically mocked Trump over his previous claim that the 2020 election was stolen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I want him to do well the next four years. I want our country to do well. I\u2019m just thankful that there wasn\u2019t any voting fraud this time,&#8217; Kerr said.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/01\/21\/05\/88708625-14307427-Kerr_mimicked_his_star_Warriors_player_Steph_Curry_s_iconic_Nigh-a-5_1737435754243.jpg\" alt=\"Kerr taunted Trump during a speech\u00a0at the 2024 Democratic National Convention\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/01\/21\/04\/94334405-14307427-image-a-1_1737435217455.jpg\" alt=\"Golden State suffered its worst home defeat in four decades at the hands of Boston on Monday\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8216;Last time (in 2020), I mean, all those illegal immigrants who crashed the border, raped and murdered people and then voted six times, that was unfortunate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;But thankfully this time everything was clean. So, it\u2019s great that every election has been really valid except for that last one four years ago.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>On Monday night,\u00a0Jayson Tatum led six Boston players in double figures with a game-high 22 points.<\/p>\n<p>Kristaps Porzingis chipped in 18 points and Jaylen Brown scored 17 for Boston. The Celtics dropped the season-series opener to Golden State, for the fourth straight season, before getting even &#8211; and then some &#8211; in the rematch.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerr has long been an outspoken critic of Trump and he delivered a brutal speech in support of Kamala Harris at the 2024 Democratic National Convention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":27655,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[28,32,1529,45,29],"class_list":["post-27650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-dailymail","tag-donald-trump","tag-kamala-harris","tag-nba","tag-sport"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>NEWS: Proud Democrat Steve Kerr suffers humiliating NBA loss after ignoring Donald Trump&#039;s inauguration - 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