Originally posted by TheSixthRing:Originally posted by lazy:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/100507&sportCat=nba
What a beautiful article by Bill Simmons.
I didn't know that Kerr's dad was assinated.
Yeah, that's pretty crazy I didn't know that either.... and to have a crowd in college taunt him about that? Wow.
Quote:For some reason....Paola Bolivin articles make me
His sensitivity to social injustice isn't surprising. Kerr's father, Malcolm, a longtime political science professor at UCLA, spent much of his life promoting positive relations between the West and Arab worlds. It is why his assassination in Lebanon in 1984 shook so many.
Five years earlier, the 13-year-old Kerr had come home from school and saw his dad "bouncing off the walls, like the Suns had won a world championship. It was because of the Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin (Egyptian-Israeli) peace accord. Like sports are for me, his passion for peace was for him. I'm sure it had a major effect on my view of human relations."
Human relations remain his strength, one of the reasons he has blossomed into a top-notch general manager. He is enjoying the job a lot more, too, now that the team is having success.
