Harvard’s support from Steve Kerr didn’t sit well with a former colleague.
On Tuesday night, Kerr supported the Ivy League University that is currently An objective or president Donald TrumpAmong other universities, for several reasons, including their process to register international students, anti -Semitism on the campus and their tax exemption state, by using a Harvard basketball shirt at a press conference after the game.
The Trump administration froze $ 2.2 billion in subsidies of several years and $ 60 million in contracts of several years after Harvard refused to meet their demands.
However, the former Warriors co -owner, Chamato Palihapitiya, sounded at the 11 -year -old Warriors coach in a scorching position on Friday.
“Steve Kerr is an unfortunate challenge. He is blindly defending an institution that: 1) is a corporation with a general balance of $ 53b disguised as a non -benefit,” Palihapitiya wrote in X. and defeated by the Supreme Court, they were discriminatory in their admission process and violated the Constitution.
“Normally, when an executive in a company where I own equity talks about issues beyond their knowledge and reveals itself as an idiot, my equity is usually shot. This is my problem, but the total ignorance of their comments is still standing.”
Press conference after the game on April 15, 2025. X @Stevenrisotto
Palihapitiya, 48, who was an early executive on Facebook and later in charge of a venture capital fund, had a 10 percent participation in the Warriors from 2011 to 2022.
Kerr and Palihapitiya crossed the seasons once the chief coach arrived in the Bay area in 2014.
Kerr was asked about using Harvard’s shirt after the Warriors game victory over the Grizzlies, 121-116, and made clear his political position, as he is often known.
“Oh, is something happening?” He joked to start his answer. “Tommy Amaker is a friend of mine. Harvard coach. He sent me this shirt; in reality, we are practiced there in Boston in November. This shirt is great and felt like a great day to use it. I believe in academic freedom. I want the way, and they should not shake me and say, what to say, for our government.
The Warriors No. 7 begin their first round playoff series against Rockets No. 2 on Sunday night.
