THE GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS have responded to Donald Trump’s decision to rescind a traditional invitation for the team to visit the White House in February.
The reigning NBA champions released a statement expressing disappointment that they weren’t afforded an opportunity to share their views or have an open dialogue on specific issues affecting local communities, something which they felt would’ve been a valuable exercise.
But they also added that the team will still travel to Washington as planned, just not to the White House.
The Warriors confirmed the purpose of the trip will be ‘to celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion – the values that we embrace as an organisation.’
The Warriors’ players, as well as coach Steve Kerr, have long been critical of Trump’s presidency and the pending annual trip to the White House for the championship-winning team was an inevitable topic of conversation at the Warriors pre-season media day on Friday.
It was there that Steph Curry – a two-time MVP – said he didn’t want to attend and said that such an approach could ‘inspire some change’.
“I don’t think us not going to the White House is going to miraculously make everything better, but this is my opportunity to voice that,” he added.
Following that, Trump singled out Curry in a tweet and said that the invitation to the Warriors had been withdrawn as a result.
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Casey should be playing the ryder cup with the form he is in. Pity….
Who cares, where are the pictures of him celebrating with Paula ?? Could do with a drool !
Casey chose not to play on the European tour. He just needed to play 5 times. Pity, he’s better than Westwood right now for sure..
True but it shows a lack of interest/commitment, shame alright, he had no problem coming back to Europe to play a couple of years ago when his career went into free fall, it was the Irish Open where he kickstarted his career again, decided Nov 15 he wasn’t going to bother playing the small number of tournaments required.
The anti Lee Westwood(all around social media) thing baffles me. He was in decent form when picked and if Clarke had left him out there would have been uproar and knives out to blame his exclusion on a defeat if it happened.
Absolutely. More so than bloody Westwood.
Why ? Last result aside, he has been in better form than several of the rookies (2 of them are not at the races at all at the moment) and his Ryder Cup record speaks for itself.