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A familiar tune — especially to Chicago Bulls fans in the 1990s — echoed through the United Center speakers Monday night.
And a familiar face to Bulls fans of the era, NBA champion and coach Steve Kerr, took the stage to the Alan Parsons Project’s “Sirius” — not to hit three-pointers, but to rally the crowd behind Vice President Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
After coaching Team USA to a fifth consecutive Olympic gold medal in Paris, Kerr said it was “so much fun to be back here at the United Center. And as you know, a lot of good things happened in this building, especially in the ’90s.”
“You kids, Google ‘Michael Jordan,’” he joked.
As for the Democratic ticket, Kerr said Harris and Walz, a former high school football coach, both displayed the qualities of true leaders.
“The joy, the compassion and the commitment to our country that we saw at the Olympics, that’s what Kamala Harris and Tim Walz have, and that’s what our country needs,” Kerr said. “Leadership, real leadership, not the kind that seeks to divide us, but the kind that recognizes and celebrates our common purpose.”
“Imagine what we could do if there were 330 million of us playing on the same team,” he added. “Not as Democrats, not as Republicans, not as libertarians, but as Americans.”
Kerr urged his listeners, like himself, to get out every day and help people vote for Harris on November 5.
“That night we can – in the words of the great Steph Curry – say to Donald Trump, ‘Good night,’” Kerr said.
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