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  • 2017-06-13 (xsd:date)
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  • The Golden State Warriors Voted Not to Visit the White House? (en)
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  • The morning after the Golden State Warriors basketball team defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 2017 NBA Finals, the news was filled with reports about how the newly-crowned NBA champions had unanimously voted to skip the traditional congratulatory trip to the White House. Although this rumor was picked up by a diverse range of outlets, ranging from NBC to Uproxx to Vibe to Raw Story, these reports were all based on a single source: a tweet from CNBC finance reporter Josh Brown: Brown did not cite a source for the information, nor did he quote or link to any first-hand accounts of the team's plans. Several Warriors members have talked about their dislike for the current administration, but that talk came before the team won the 2017 NBA championship. Head coach Steve Kerr, for instance, said that Donald Trump was ill-suited to be President in November 2016, while point guard Steph Curry slyly called the president an ass (saying, I agree with that description ... if you remove the 'et' from asset.) Power forward David West was less coy regarding his opinion of President Trump and the president's supporters: So although it's true that several members of the Golden State Warriors have openly expressed their dislike for President Trump, reports that the team has unanimously voted to skip the traditional visit to the White House is based on of a single unconfirmed tweet. USA Today NBA reporter Jeff Zillgitt tweeted that the Golden State Warriors had neither received nor turned down an invitation from the White House: The Golden State Warriors released a statement confirming that the reports claiming that the team had rejected the White House's invitation were premature: (en)
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