Louisville grad, Golden State Warriors' Damion Lee vents on shooting, formula shortage

"It’s easier to get a gun than baby formula right now."

Damion Lee wasn't hiding his feelings Tuesday night.

His sharp comments came in a post-game press conference after Game 4 of the NBA Conference Finals between Lee's Golden State Warriors and the Dallas Mavericks, but more importantly following a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, that left 19 children and two adults dead.

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“It’s just sad. Obviously everyone saw Steve’s [Kerr] pregame presser," Lee said during the press conference. "Those are my exact same sentiments. It’s sad the world that we live in. We need to reform that. Guns shouldn’t be as easily accessible … like, it’s easier to get a gun than baby formula right now. That’s unbelievable in this country that we live in.”

Before the loss to the Mavericks, head coach Kerr approached the mic and expressed his own frustrations, saying, “50 senators, right now, who refuse to vote on HR8.” The HR8 bill would implement background check requirements for firearms and was passed by the House in February of 2019, according to Congress.gov.

“So I ask you, Mitch McConnell, I ask all of you senators who refuse to do anything about the violence and school shootings and supermarket shootings. I ask you, ‘Are you going to put your own desire for power ahead of the lives of our children and our elderly and our churchgoers?’ Because that’s what it looks like,” Kerr said during the pregame presser.

Lee is a graduate of the University of Louisville, where he played 30 games over one season with the Cardinals. He spent the first three seasons of his college career with Drexel before transferring to U of L. Over four seasons in college, Lee racked up 2,016 points, 244 assists, 598 rebounds and averaged 2 assists per game.

He had one assist and six points in Tuesday's loss to the Mavs.

Lee now has a child, which he spoke on in the presser, so the formula shortage and the school shooting hit closer to home.

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“I don’t like bringing things on myself, but I have a kid now,” Lee said. “Me and my wife were talking before the game just about how scary it is. … You have a child, obviously not old enough to go to school, but when that does happen how crazy the world is.”