In 2019, Trump called you a “scared” “little boy.” He was referring to your choice not to comment on the N.B.A.’s reprimand of Rockets general manager Daryl Morey’s tweet in support of anti-government protesters in Hong Kong. Obviously, Trump relished what he perceived to be hypocrisy on the part of both the N.B.A. broadly, as a purported supporter of free speech and social justice, and you specifically, as one of the freest speakers in the league. You’d declined to get involved in the conflict, citing a lack of information on the issue. How do you feel about that stance now? Steve Kerr: I gave a really weak answer. I was trying to walk the line. You regret that? Kerr: Yeah. I was wrong. We had a lot of players on our team that were doing business in China. A lot of our players would go there off-season. The N.B.A. had this huge relationship with China. But, of course, thousands of American companies had trade and relations with China. And so the N.B.A. just got caught up in all of this and I didn’t handle it well. I was trying to walk the company line and not make the N.B.A. mad.

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