{"id":480827,"date":"2026-01-26T08:29:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T07:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=480827"},"modified":"2026-01-26T08:29:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T07:29:05","slug":"it-was-one-of-the-saddest-games-ive-ever-experienced-steve-kerrs-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/it-was-one-of-the-saddest-games-ive-ever-experienced-steve-kerrs-comment\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIt was one of the saddest games I\u2019ve ever experienced\u201d: Steve Kerr\u2019s comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"121\" data-end=\"467\">On Sunday afternoon, the Target Centre understandably had a strange and subdued atmosphere. Despite the Golden State Warriors&#8217; clear victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves by 111-85, with a margin of nearly 30 points, the game took a back seat to what was happening outside the arena, on the streets of Minneapolis.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Steve Kerr: \u201cWe\u2019re being divided by media for-profit, by misinformation\u2026It is a confusing time to be alive and be an American.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JALRF230YF\">pic.twitter.com\/JALRF230YF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anthonyVslater\/status\/2015535498278613123?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 25, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Warriors coach Steve Kerr acknowledged this after the game, saying that there was an unusual atmosphere in the arena, filled with sadness.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Honestly, the feeling I got was that their team was suffering,\u2019 Kerr said, according to ESPN. \u2018What you felt in the stands was one of the strangest and saddest atmospheres I&#8217;ve ever experienced in a game. There was a sombre mood. Their team was shaken by everything that was happening and what the city had been through. It was very sad. It was a sad night.\u2019<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Steve Kerr called the arena atmosphere in Minneapolis today one of the most \u201cbizarre, sad\u201d vibes he\u2019s experienced at a game<\/p>\n<p>Warriors blew out the Timberwolves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHonestly what I felt was that their group was suffering.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/K1EsR6Fr8j\">pic.twitter.com\/K1EsR6Fr8j<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anthonyVslater\/status\/2015594560496234916?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 26, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Before the game began, the Timberwolves observed a minute of silence in memory of Pretti. During that moment, some fans shouted slogans against ICE from the stands.<\/p>\n<p>Protests were also reported on Sunday around the Target Centre, but the game was played without incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It&#8217;s very difficult to see so many people sad and affected,\u2019 Kerr concluded. \u2018They came to the game to try to forget what&#8217;s going on, but I think for the city and for their team, nothing has really gone away. They were paying the price for all of this.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments from the Golden State Warriors coaches after their victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves in a surreal atmosphere<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":480826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-480827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-26-alle-08.23.24.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480827"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=480827"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=480827"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=480827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}