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PORTLAND, Ore. --? Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr on Sunday spoke out against an executive order initiated by President Donald Trump that temporarily bans entry to the U.S. of all refugees and most visitors from seven majority-Muslim countries. "I would just say that as someone whose family member was a victim of terrorism, having lost my father, if we're trying to combat terrorism by banishing people from coming to this country, by really going against the principles of what our country is about and creating fear, it's the wrong way of going about it," Kerr said after the Warriors defeated the Portland Trail Blazers? 113-111. "If anything, we could be breeding anger and terror. So I'm completely against what's happening." Kerr's father, Malcolm, was assassinated in 1984 by an Islamic jihadi while serving as the president of the American University of Beirut, where the Warriors coach was born. Kerr was a college freshman at Arizona at the...

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