On Tuesday, the Golden State Warriors took Washington, D.C., area students to the National Museum of African American History and Culture to celebrate the basketball team\u2019s 2017 NBA Finals win.<\/p>\n
Shooting guard Klay Thompson spoke to the media about the team\u2019s choice after their Monday night win against the New York Knicks.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe White House is a great honor, but there are some other circumstances that we felt uncomfortable going,\u201d Thompson said. \u201cWe\u2019re not going to politicize anything. We\u2019re going to hang out with some kids, and take them to the African American Museum, and hopefully teach them some things we learned along the way.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s customary for NBA Finals champions to visit the White House. But after the Warriors\u2019 win in June, many players made it clear that they did not want to go because they disagreed with President Donald Trump\u2019s politics. In September, star point guard Stephen Curry shared his views on a possible White House visit with USA Today.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t stand for basically what our president has \u2014 the things that he\u2019s said and the things that he hasn\u2019t said in the right times, that we won\u2019t stand for it,\u201d Curry said. \u201cAnd by acting and not going, hopefully that will inspire some change when it comes to what we tolerate in this country and what is accepted and what we turn a blind eye to.\u201d<\/p>\n
Following Curry\u2019s comments, Trump tweeted that the team was uninvited. The team\u2019s head coach, Steve Kerr, decided to let the players choose how they wanted to spend time in the nation\u2019s capital this week while there for a game against the Washington Wizards, according to ESPN.<\/p>\n
The team had many options, including holding a ceremony with Democratic politicians, according to NBC News. But the team wanted to depoliticize the D.C. visit.<\/p>\n
A recent statement from the Warriors, per the New York Post, indicated the team chose to \u201cconstructively use our trip to the nation\u2019s capital in February to celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion \u2014 the values that we embrace as an organization.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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