Today we have another podcast with Jon Stewart that's a companion to his new series on Apple TV+. Some are extensions of the Apple show, others are standalone. This is a standalone as Jon talks with Steve Kerr, who he describes as "The Nicest, Whitest Man in Basketball."
As their website describes the podcast, “Steve Kerr thinks he’s here to talk with Jon about his career, speaking out on social issues, and the racial and political dynamics of the NBA. And he does get to talk about those things, but not before enduring Jon’s pleas for him to coach the Knicks. Staff writers Jay and Henrik offer some color commentary as well.” For what it’s worth, from other books on basketball (and from my years following the Chicago Bulls, when Kerr played with them during the Michael Jordan years), he has always been called as nice as they come. He’s also a bright, thoughtful guy, whose father was the president of American University of Beirut. (Kerr also has a very interesting personal story about this, and I was curious if they'd reference it. Though this conversation doesn’t get into that in much depth, they do touch on it around the 36:30 mark.) If you do tune in, know that although the show begins with a lot of talk about basketball – and much of it is pretty funny -- it eventually gets to a serious, and very interesting conversation about race, so you can jump to that at the 18:00 mark..
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