“We live in this complex world of gray areas. “Put yourself in someone else’s shoes and look at it from a bigger perspective,” Kerr told the paper. His father's death, the coach explained, still informs how he sees the world and relates to people. Steve Kerr has discussed his father's death and what it means to him before, but he opened up most recently and candidly in a Times profile from December. The New York Times reported at the time that Malcolm Kerr "was killed, his friends insist, not for being who he was, but because now that the Marines and the American Embassy in Beirut are smothered in security, he was the most vulnerable prominent American in Lebanon and a choice target for militants trying to intimidate Americans into leaving." An Islamic extremist group later took credit for the killing. Kerr was a freshman basketball player at the University of Arizona in 1984 when his father, Malcolm Kerr, a professor and president of the American University of Beirut, was shot to death outside his office. "If anything, we could be breeding anger and terror, so I'm completely against what's happening. "If we're trying to combat terrorism by banishing people from coming to this country, by really going against the principles of what our country is about and creating fear, it's the wrong way to go about it," Kerr said. He prefaced that by saying he spoke "as someone whose family member was a victim of terrorism, having lost my father." Tweet may have been deleted The Warriors coach followed up his online activism this weekend by again criticizing Trump's wide ban on Muslim refugees and immigrants in a session with reporters Sunday. Kerr is one of the few who actually knows what it's like to have your life upended by terrorism.
Popovich, left, and Kerr, before a game in 2014.