[LOCKED] OT: Golden State Warriors unanimously vote to skip customary White House visit
It didn’t take the Golden State Warriors long to decide to skip the traditional championship White House visit.
Less than 24 hours after winning the 2017 NBA Finals on Monday night, the Warriors unanimously voted to decline the White House ceremony honoring their Finals win over the Cleveland Cavaliers, according to several reports including one by CNBC analyst Josh Brown.
The Warriors attended the White House ceremony to honor their 2015 NBA Finals title when former President Barack Obama was in the White House.
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MOD EDIT - ....and locked. It's interesting news, to be sure, but this thread.....yeesh. - LSA
Cavs wouldn't have gone neither.
the NBA as a whole is very political and leans heavily in one direction.
The NBA has made it very clear they don't want anyone disagreeing with their way of thought - one reason I don't watch or go to games any more tbh
neither side has any moral ground in Washington and thinking one side is better than the other is what is wrong with this country
You don't watch the NBA because they don't want anyone disagreeing with their way of thinking? You sound a bit preachy while bitching about the choices others make, and then wrapping it up in the ole "this is what's wrong with this country" smh....
what is wrong with this country is thinking either the left or the right is correct
both parties are run by billionaires and neither give a shit about you or me
the NBA made their choice, so I made mine - I take issue with people (on either side) who think it is that clear that one party is good and the other is evil - both are corrupt as all get out and when the NBA says we don't have room for anyone who doesn't agree with us then I leave - SVG and Pop have had epic rants to this effect - it isn't just the Warriors
and "right" are almost completely irrelevant/undefinable right now.
The NBA is run by billionaires and doesnt give a shit about you or me, and here you are thinking its incorrect.
Yeah, and back in 2003 the Dixie Chicks protested our presence in Iraq and now I have just boycotted the music industry entirely.
I now only listen to noise and ticks and faint hums.
As I scanned over your post my brain somehow processed "I now only listen to noise and ticks and faint hums" to "I now only listen to noise and tick farts."
Once I re-read more carefully I saw what you wrote but I got a pretty good laugh at that imagery anyway.
You just hate dissension. If they have a differing opinion than you, then they are wrong? Not to mention the fact that you put the whole NBA under one bubble. I don't watch because I hate the product. I don't watch because the officiating is abhorred. I don't really care what the league thinks. That's what's wrong with the country, we don't respect different opinions. It's not a wrong or right issue. Who determines what's wrong or right anyway? I respect your right to believe whatever it is you believe, as long as your beliefs don't harm me, or my family. Just because you wouldn't do something, doesn't make it wrong, it's just different.
extremism
even though my hate of extremism is extreme
throw out the extreme 5% of the left and right and this country would truly be great
The free market is voting with their feet too, NBA ratings way down 2016/17.14% drop y/y. Just play ball fellas and forget the politics.
NBA also broke their attendance record. So people aren't necessarily voting against the NBA. Live TV sportsviewership has declined y/y in all 4 major sports.
Doubtful.
I don't like Trump, but it's getting clear that this whole nationwide flip-out is because there is a President with an R behind his name, rather than a specific personality.
Until people re-learn the principle of, "Sees things differently, not evil/stupid." we're going to keep going down this path. The whole thing ends in tears and while I hope for a general if not entirely comfortable reunion akin to how the country eventually got back together after the 60's I don't know if it's possible anymore. There's too much embedded dislike and too much calling out of specific ethnic groups(rather than addressing laws or government policies) as villains on both sides to allow for an easy rapproachment.
sorry, but this claim about having an R behind is name is complete BS. The "Rs" are trying to figure out how the hell they can get out from under this "R" before November 2018 as we speak.
It's related to the fact that Trump is viewed as an avatar of people that those on the Left don't like.
Republican's in government for the most part can't stand him, true, but my comment was not related to how Republican's view him.
really don't consider Trump right or left. I think his policies or intended policies in his first term are kind of right-centrist, but only in a bid to get re-elected. I think Trump's "beliefs" have more to do with how he views people and their inherent "worth" based on superficial traits and/or characteristics. I think he views inequality of all kinds to be unavoidable and even desirable and I reject that belief whole-heartedly.
Or it could be due to the massive scandals swirling around his administration, as well as the fact that he wants govern as if he has a huge mandate despite losing the popular vote by 3,000,000
And the fact that Donald Trump is, and has always been, nothing more than a successful con man. When American bankers figured that out they stopped lending to him. But you know what P.T. Barnum said...
Why did you fixate on the first paragraph?
The political spin on everything is a beatdown and it is exhausting. Everything is said now with the goal of affecting the NEXT ELECTION.
I can't speak for everyone else, but from this Independent...
This isn't about Republicans. It's about Trump. I wasn't moved to political activism over Bush, for instance.
The current President is unlike any other before him and, in my never humble opinion, not in a good way.
We got our first "both sides!"-er. Nice.
So wait...you don't watch the sport because you feel it disagrees with your political beliefs, and then say that neither side has moral ground and thinking one side is better than the other is wrong with this country.
Listen, the NFL and NCAA are full of people I really don't agree with politically, and the NBA is run by guys who spout off dime-store libertarianism because "I'm a rich asshole" doesn't sound as pleasurable. Hell, my guess is if I sat in a room with Jim Harbaugh and discussed politics with him we'd find each other pretty annoying. But at some point, you realize politics is in everything you consume and you either make peace with that or just move to the country and live in a bunker.
Not as much anymore. A lot of AA I know voted for Trump because the Democrats have been selling them down the river for a long time. They want jobs, safe neighborhoods and good schools, all things Trump had over the other party.
Here's a good non-political discussion item for this thread:
When did this become a "tradition"? I certainly have no recollection of Jimmy Carter ever meeting the New York Yankees in the Oval Office. Maybe he did, but I think that's exactly the sort of thing I would have noticed.
I know there was a famous incident with John Riggins of the Washington Redskins at a White House dinner during the Reagan Administration, but it doesn't seem to have been at an event honoring the Super Bowl Champions.
I think it must have started in the mid- to late- 1980s, but I would be curious to know exactly when it became near-mandatory for the president to invite National Championship sports teams to the White House.
you should mention that because I was thinking to myself that we are only minutes away from a Trump-tweet making it clear that the Warriors were not, in fact, invited to the White House in the first place.
In that case they actually cut Trump a break by avoiding him having to be turned down. How appreciative do you think he'll be?
Is funny. Sad, but funny, and sad because it's so true.
will be even funnier will be when Spicer is actually asked about it, and watching him break down the logistics of whether an invitation was made, when it was made, who turned who down, etc. It will actually probably happen.
Trump will instead invite his favorite basketball club: CSKA Moscow of the Euroleague.
you remember when Forrest Gump met JFK??
Cumong Man!
#IDoBelieveHeSaidHeHasToPee
I remember a SI cover picture of Patrick Ewing, John Thompson and Ronald Reagan in the Oval for the college basketball preview the year Georgetown won it all.
Well, disrespecting the traditions and norms of the position one holds seems to be quite the thing right now...