The Golden State Warriors and the boston celtics joined this Sunday in the preview of the second game of the Finals of the NBA to call for an end to gun violence in America.
Both teams wore End Gun Violence t-shirts before the game and their coaches spoke about the need to increase gun control, especially after the murder of 19 children and two teachers in a school in Uvalde (Texas, USA) on May 24.
The message is everything.
“I think as a league we feel very strongly that it’s time for people to pay attention and take sides in what should be a nationwide effort to limit gun violence,” Los Angeles coach Steve Kerr said Sunday. Golden State Warriors.
“There are ways to limit it. There are laws that are waiting to be passed, like background checks (to buy a gun). There are things we can do that would not violate Second Amendment rights but would save lives,” he said in reference to that amendment to the US Constitution that protects the right to keep and bear arms in the country.
Jaylen Brown caught on to the move. (AP)
For his part, Ime Udoka, coach of the Celtics, stressed the value of this initiative to stop a situation that is leaving “devastated families”. “Awareness is needed and changes need to be made,” he said.
NBA figures like Lebron James In recent weeks, they also showed their sadness and anger at what happened in Uvalde, although the most powerful and commented speech on gun violence was given in Dallas (USA) by Kerr himself on the same day of the massacre.
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“Since we left training this morning, 14 children and a teacher (the number of victims later rose) have been murdered 400 miles from here (644 kilometers). In the last ten days, we have had elderly black men murdered in a supermarket in Buffalo, Asian parishioners murdered in Southern California and now we have children murdered at school,” he explained. “When are we going to do something?!”scream.
On the verge of tears and with a gesture of rage at all times, Kerr pointed out that he is “very tired” of making minutes of silence and appearing before the media to “offer condolences to devastated families” after a shooting in the US. In addition, Kerr lashed out at Republican senators who are against tightening gun control, whom he accused of holding the American population “hostage” just to preserve their political power.
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In the NBA, rivals united to call for an end to gun violence