Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr started his pregame information convention on Friday with a tribute to a different Bay Space teaching nice in Laney Faculty’s John Beam.
Beam died earlier Friday after a shooting on the Laney campus, where he was athletic director. A suspect, 27-year-old Cedric Irving Jr., is reportedly in custody and the authorities have described the assault as focused, with the suspect and sufferer apparently figuring out one another.
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Calling the coach a “legend,” Kerr praised Beam’s contributions to the Bay Space in his time as head coach at Laney and Skyline Excessive College, a profession that was documented within the remaining season of Netflix‘s “Final Likelihood U.”
Kerr:
“In the present day’s a extremely, actually unhappy day. Unhappy day for the Bay Space, unhappy day for Coach Beam’s household and all people in Oakland. He was a revered determine in Oakland, did a lot for therefore many individuals. On behalf of the Warriors, I simply need to lengthen our condolences and remind all people we have now to be the change, as a neighborhood, as residents, we have now to be those who insist that we tackle gun violence points.”
Kerr added that he did not know Beam personally, however had many pals in Oakland who knew the coach nicely and texted him Friday to elucidate his influence.
John Beam impacted numerous lives within the Bay Space. (AP Photograph/Laure Andrillon)
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Beam was an completed highschool and junior school coach with a repute for being relentlessly devoted to his gamers. Per Laney’s web site, greater than 20 of his former gamers have reached the NFL.
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Two of them had been Nahshon and and Rejzohn Wright, now a part of the Chicago Bears and New Orleans Saints, respectively. Each of posted tributes to Beam on Instagram, with Nahshon saying “Will without end miss you dawg” and Rejzohn saying “Crushed.”
NBA star Damian Lillard additionally spoke up, revealing that Beam gave him his first job at Laney soccer video games.
