Trump's Refugee Ban: Sports World Reacts

Over the weekend, athletes and coaches from a number of sports reacted to Donald Trump's immigration order, which prevented access to the United States for travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries for the next 90 days.

San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich compared the ban to the fictional (and incompetent) policemen Keystone Kops. Popovich hasn’t been shy about voicing his opinion on Trump in recent months, saying his big fear in wake of Trump's election is "we are Rome."

As you already know, I have lots of thoughts about what we've done to ourselves as a country and what we've allowed to happen," Popovich said. "But we'll see where this goes. Obviously the roll-out today was Keystone Kops-like by any measure with objectivity. Whether you want to say it's good or bad is irrelevant. But it was Keystone Kops, and that's scary."

Staying in the basketball world, Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr said he's "completely against what's happening." Kerr lost his father, Malcolm Kerr, who was shot and killed by two terrorist gunmen outside of his office in Beirut, Lebanon in 1984.

"I would just say that as someone whose family member was a victim of terrorism, having lost my father, if we're trying to combat terrorism by banishing people from coming to this country, by really going against the principles of what our country is about and creating fear, it's the wrong way of going about it. If anything, we could be breeding anger and terror."

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