CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr wants NBA officials to call more violations for traveling.
Kerr received a technical foul in the third quarter of the Warriors’ 119-101 win over the Charlotte Hornets on Monday night after becoming irate when what he viewed as an obvious travel wasn't called. Kerr even pointed to the crowd, where some fans were screaming for a traveling call.
“I don’t understand why we are not teaching our officials to call travel in this league,” Kerr said. “They do a great job and work their tails off and communicate well, but I see five or six travels a game that aren’t called.”
Kerr said his own team is just as guilty as the rest.
After watching film, the coach said he saw his own team travel four times in Saturday night’s loss to Philadelphia. None of them were called.
“You know it's a problem when there are like hundred fans in the stands and every coach on the sideline when I'm watching film and everyone is (signaling for a travel call),” Kerr said. “Everyone is seeing it, so we are clearly not teaching as a league our officials to look at the feet.”
This isn't the first time that Kerr — a former NBA guard — has criticized officials for inconsistent enforcement of traveling violations. He said he's expressed his thoughts to the league and that things need to change “for the good of the game.”
“The entire game is based on footwork,” Kerr said. “We need enforce traveling violations and we are not doing it and I don't understand why. ... These (officials) are awesome. They do a great job, and they have a million things to watch, but footwork is the entire basis of the game and we need to call traveling. It will be a much better game if we clean it up."
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Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr yells during the second half of an NBA basketball game against the Charlotte Hornets on Monday, March 3, 2025, in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr shouts to players on the court during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Orlando Magic, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr, right, reacts toward referee Brandon Adair (67) during the second half of an NBA basketball game between the Warriors and the Charlotte Hornets in San Francisco, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit Monday seeking $10 billion in damages from the BBC, accusing the British broadcaster of defamation as well as deceptive and unfair trade practices.
The 33-page lawsuit accuses the BBC of broadcasting a “false, defamatory, deceptive, disparaging, inflammatory, and malicious depiction of President Trump,” calling it “a brazen attempt to interfere in and influence” the 2024 U.S. presidential election.
It accused the BBC of “splicing together two entirely separate parts of President Trump’s speech on January 6, 2021” in order to ”intentionally misrepresent the meaning of what President Trump said.”
The BBC did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Associated Press.
The broadcaster had apologized last month to Trump over the edit of the Jan. 6 speech. But the publicly funded broadcaster rejected claims it had defamed him, after Trump threatened legal action.
BBC chairman Samir Shah had called it an “error of judgment,” which triggered the resignations of the BBC’s top executive and its head of news.
The speech took place before some of Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol as Congress was poised to certify President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election that Trump falsely alleged was stolen from him.
The BBC had broadcast the hourlong documentary — titled “Trump: A Second Chance?” — days before the 2024 U.S. presidential election. It spliced together three quotes from two sections of the 2021 speech, delivered almost an hour apart, into what appeared to be one quote in which Trump urged supporters to march with him and “fight like hell.” Among the parts cut out was a section where Trump said he wanted supporters to demonstrate peacefully.
Trump said earlier Monday that he was suing the BBC “for putting words in my mouth.”
“They actually put terrible words in my mouth having to do with Jan. 6 that I didn’t say, and they’re beautiful words, that I said, right?" the president said unprompted during an appearance in the Oval Office. "They’re beautiful words, talking about patriotism and all of the good things that I said. They didn’t say that, but they put terrible words.”
The president's lawsuit was filed in Florida. Deadlines to bring the case in British courts expired more than a year ago.
Legal experts have brought up potential challenges to a case in the U.S. given that the documentary was not shown in the country.
The 103-year-old BBC is a national institution funded through an annual license fee of 174.50 pounds ($230) paid by every household that watches live TV or BBC content. Bound by the terms of its charter to be impartial, it typically faces especially intense scrutiny and criticism from both conservatives and liberals.
President Donald Trump speaks during a Mexican Border Defense Medal presentation in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
