Proud Democrat Steve Kerr suffers humiliating NBA loss after ignoring Donald Trump's inauguration

Warriors manager Steve Kerr opted to hole for his team's NBA crippled against the Celtics, alternatively than ticker President Trump's inauguration.

But it didn't assistance Golden State, which suffered its worst location decision successful 4 decades  astatine the hands of Boston connected Monday night.

Kerr has agelong been an outspoken professional of Trump and helium delivered a brutal code in enactment of Kamala Harris at the 2024 Democratic National Convention.

On Monday, however, Kerr kept his absorption connected Boston alternatively than Washington, wherever Trump was sworn successful for a 2nd term.

'I didn’t ticker the inauguration. I chose to ticker Celtics tape,' said Kerr, who precocious mislaid his puerility home successful the Los Angeles wildfires.

But that other mentation could not forestall the Warriors from falling to a humiliating 125-85 nonaccomplishment to the Celtics connected Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Golden State had not mislaid by 40 points astatine location since January 15, 1985. But this decision came little than a twelvemonth aft the Celtics dealt the Warriors a 140-88 pounding.

Kerr made headlines for his comments astir Trump astatine the DNC, erstwhile helium taunted the then-Republican nominee and borrowed Steph Curry's 'night night' solemnisation .

'As a manager and erstwhile player, arsenic a husband, a son, a father, adjacent a grandfather, and arsenic an American, I judge successful a definite benignant of leadership. 

'I judge leaders indispensable show dignity. I judge that leaders indispensable archer the truth,' Kerr told the crowd.

'Shouldn’t you privation those aforesaid qualities successful your president?' helium continued. 'When you deliberation astir it that way, this is nary contest.'

Kerr past enactment his hands to his caput and vowed that - aft predetermination nighttime - 'in the words of the large Steph Curry, we tin archer Donald Trump: "Night, night"'

In the end, Trump defeated Harris to gain a 2nd word arsenic president. 

The pursuing night, Kerr sarcastically mocked Trump implicit his erstwhile assertion that the 2020 predetermination was stolen.

'I privation him to bash good the adjacent 4 years. I privation our state to bash well. I’m conscionable thankful that determination wasn’t immoderate voting fraud this time,' Kerr said. 

'Last clip (in 2020), I mean, each those amerciable immigrants who crashed the border, raped and murdered radical and past voted six times, that was unfortunate. 

'But thankfully this clip everything was clean. So, it’s large that each predetermination has been truly valid but for that past 1 4 years ago.'

On Monday night, Jayson Tatum led six Boston players successful treble figures with a game-high 22 points. 

Kristaps Porzingis chipped successful 18 points and Jaylen Brown scored 17 for Boston. The Celtics dropped the season-series opener to Golden State, for the 4th consecutive season, earlier getting adjacent - and past immoderate - successful the rematch.