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Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr paid homage to baseball legend Jackie Robinson right before their duel with the Philadelphia 76ers.
Prior to Thursday's game, Kerr faced the media donning a black shirt with a Jackie Robinson design printed on it. Asked on the shirt and Robinson's impact on baseball and beyond, Kerr said:
“Jackie Robinson probably represents Black History Month as well as any person possibly could,” Kerr said, per John Shea of SF Gate. “The impact he made, the adversity he faced, the success he had and the roads he paved for so many people in this country, it’s very inspiring. So I wanted to honor what would have been his birthday.”
Thursday would've been Robinson's 100th birthday. Apart from his success in baseball, which includes winning the 1955 Word Series as well as a National League MVP in 1949, Robinson was an active part of the civil rights movement from the mid-1950s until late 1960s. He was seen as one the breaker of baseball's color line in 1947 with the LA Dodgers — Kerr's favorite baseball team.
Robinson also became the first black television analyst in MLB and the first black vice president of a major American corporation. Apart from this, he also helped establish the Freedom National Bank, an African-American-owned financial institution based in Harlem, New York.
