Didn’t want you here anyway! Trump WITHDRAWS invitation to NBA champions Golden State Warriors to visit the White House after star player Steph Curry said he didn’t want to go
Donald Trump has withdrawn the Golden State Warriors’ invitation to visit The White House after Steph Curry ‘hesitated’
‘Going to the White House is considered a great honor,’ Trump tweeted Saturday
However Warriors head coach Steve Kerr said the customary invitation to the defending NBA champions had never been extended
Typically the title holders in each major American team sport are invited to the White House sometime over the next year
NBA Finals MVP Kevin Durant has already declared he will not visit with Trump
Kerr previously said that Trump is ‘ill-suited’ to be President of the United States
Warriors All-Star and former NBA MVP Stephen Curry said: ‘I don’t want to go’
By ALEX RASKIN
DAILYMAIL.COM
23 September 2017
Donald Trump has withdrawn an invitation to NBA champions Golden State Warriors to visit the White House after Steph Curry declared ‘I don’t want to go’.
‘Going to the White House is considered a great honor for a championship team,’ the president tweeted Saturday morning. ‘Stephen Curry is hesitating, therefore invitation is withdrawn!’
The Golden State Warriors players and coaches were set to make a joint decision as to whether or not they’d visit Trump to celebrate their 2016-17 NBA Championship at this season.
‘I don’t want to go,’ Warriors All-Star and former NBA MVP Curry said at Friday’s media day. ‘That’s kind of the nucleus of my belief.’
‘It’s not just me going to the White House,’ he continued. ‘If it was, this would be a pretty short conversation. Like I said, it’s the organization, it’s the team. It’s hard to say because I don’t know exactly what we’re going to do. If we do go, don’t go or whatever, my beliefs stay the same.’
Coach Steve Kerr told ESPN that the Warriors would meet as a team to discuss it and make a decision. He added that the White House has yet to extend a White House invitation, which customarily is made during a congratulatory call after a team has won a title.
Traditionally, the reigning champions in major American team sports visit the White House when they’re in Washington. The Warriors did meet with then-President Barack Obama after winning the 2014-15 NBA title, but the team was not openly critical of Obama as it has been of Trump.
Curry is an outspoken supporter of Obama and they are said to be friends.
Finals MVP Kevin Durant previously told ESPN that he ‘doesn’t respect’ the President and would refuse to go the White House.
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