Steve Kerr not expected to return as USA Basketball head coach: report

It seems one gold medal in the Olympics as head coach is all USA Basketball’s Steve Kerr wants to see, as he’s reportedly not expected to continue with the men’s team.

NBA reporter Marc Stein reports that Kerr is done leading the USA, the winners of gold in the 2024 Paris Olympics. 

Stein adds that Miami Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra, or Los Angeles Clippers head coach Tyronn Lue, is expected to replace Kerr, who had both on his staff in Paris. 

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Kerr has been a part of Team USA since 2016, when the Golden State Warriors head coach joined legendary San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich’s staff for USA Basketball. 

Team USA would secure gold that year and the following Olympics in Toyko in 2021. Kerr would, then, take over as head coach after Popovich stepped down following the gold-medal victory. 

In 2023, Kerr’s leadership was questioned by some after finishing fourth in the 2023 FIBA World Cup. 

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But this year’s performance at the Paris Olympics saw Team USA fight back against Serbia to reach the gold medal game, where they would eventually defeat host country France in thrilling fashion. 

During the 2024 Olympics, Kerr was criticized for benching players like Jayson Tatum and Joel Embiid, both players who have been featured in the NBA’s first-team All-Pro, for the entirety of some contests. He even called himself an idiot after leaving Tatum out of Team USA’s first game in Paris. 

However, with a star-studded roster that included Steph Curry, LeBron James, Kevin Durant and more, Kerr had to make some tough choices along with his coaching staff to divvy out playing time based on matchups. 

No matter the critiques, Team USA went 6-0 in Paris, winning the country its fifth consecutive gold medal in the Olympics. 

Whoever USA Basketball chooses as Kerr’s replacement will likely be the head coach leading the squad into Los Angeles in 2028. 

Spoelstra makes for an experienced candidate considering his 750-527 career record as head coach in the NBA with the Miami Heat for the past 17 seasons. He has also led his team to six NBA Finals, which includes three victories with back-to-back titles in 2012 and 2013. 

Spoelstra is also of the Popovich coaching tree, which could go a long way for USA Basketball. 

As for Lue, he has a slightly better career record at 312-217, having coached the Clippers and Cleveland Cavaliers. Lue’s squad, which featured James and Kyrie Irving among others, defeated Kerr and the Warriors in the legendary 2016 NBA Finals when the Cavs were down three games to one before coming back to win it all. 

Kerr will continue coaching the Warriors, but he will step aside to allow another coach to lead Team USA in the future.

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DNC policy platform slammed over ‘explicit’ Title IX protections for LGBT students: 'Flagrant lawlessness'

Delegates at the Democratic National Convention are set to vote Monday on the Democratic Party’s 2024 policy platform, which includes "explicit" Title IX protections for LGBT students that were just blocked by the Supreme Court. 

The Democratic National Convention released the final 2024 Democratic Party platform Sunday night, after the one created during President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign was eventually scrapped. Vice President Kamala Harris announced her own presidential bid shortly after, generating a need for revisions that would better align with her own policy positions and a new vision for the party. The latest party platform mimics the Biden administration’s attempted rule making on Title IX to widen the definition of sex discrimination to include gender identity. 

"After Friday’s SCOTUS order, the Biden-Harris Title IX rules are in effect in less than 50% of the country — underscoring the flagrant lawlessness of this policy, as well as the deep unpopularity of this issue," Nicole Neily, the president and founder of parental rights group Parents Defending Education, told Fox News Digital. "Americans agree on relatively little these days, but opposition to progressive gender policies is one of the few issues that transcends racial, political, and socioeconomic lines — so doubling down on this issue is a risky move."

Matt Sharp, senior counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian nonprofit that also focuses on parental rights issues, said the decision to include transgender protections in the Democratic Party’s platform "flies in the face of growing opinion" about expanding the definition of sex discrimination to include gender identity.

"I think it's really concerning to see the DNC platform sort of keep going down this same path that courts time and time again have pushed back on, have not allowed to move forward, and that ultimately the American public is not in favor of," Sharp said.

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Sharp pointed out how efforts to redefine sex and sexual discrimination go all the way back to President Barack Obama’s administration. Once Trump took office, he rolled back the rule, but then it was put back in place by Biden. 

"This has been a continuing pattern for several administrations to push this, but not only are the courts rebuffing it, but that the American public themselves are too, and we're seeing it through more and more courageous female voices standing up against this," Sharp said.

Reed D. Rubinstein, senior vice president at America First Legal, the right-wing legal organization founded by former Trump adviser Stephen Miller, called the move to add protections for transgender students under Title IX "old news."

"The left has fought this reality for well over a decade — it has repeatedly attempted and repeatedly failed to amend Title IX in Congress. Twice, it has attempted to change the law by administrative fiat. To protect girls’ sports, bathrooms, and locker rooms, the Trump administration reversed the Obama administration’s ‘Dear Colleague’ letter that asserted ‘sex’ and ‘[gender identity’ are coextensive]," Rubinstein told Fox News Digital in a statement.

"The Trump administration issued a Title IX rule that survived every single left-wing court challenge. Now, the courts have stopped the Biden-Harris administration’s attempt to rewrite the statute by regulation. But the Supreme Court, unanimously, has made it clear the word ‘sex’ in Title IX does not mean ‘gender identity,’ but rather, biological sex, male or female.

Fox News Digital reached out to the Harris campaign for comment but did not receive a response.

In addition to Title IX protections for transgender students, the DNC party platform also contains language that states Democrats will continue "to relieve the crippling burden of student debt" in 2024 — another policy effort under Biden that was rolled back by the Supreme Court. The platform blames Republicans for "block[ing] our student debt relief."

The Supreme Court ruled against the Biden administration’s plans for student debt cancelation last year, arguing the president stepped outside the bounds of his authority when he announced a plan to cancel up to $400 billion in student loans through executive action.

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