Posted on 06/13/2017 10:29:55 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
The ‘92 Blue Jays did visit the White House (Bush 1).
Sports champions didn’t regularly get White House invites until Reagan.
And as we all know, cultural appropriation is a hate crime.
Basketball in America: A History
. . . Basketball originated in 1891 when a future Presbyterian minister named James Naismith (1861-1939) was assigned to teach a physical education class at a Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) training school in Springfield, Massachusetts. The class had been noted for being disorderly, and Naismith was told to invent a new game to keep the young men occupied. Since it was winter and very cold outside, a game that could be played indoors was desirable.
Naismith thought back to his boyhood in Canada, where he and his friends had played "duck on a rock," which involved trying to knock a large rock off a boulder by throwing smaller rocks at it. He also recalled watching rugby players toss a ball into a box in a gymnasium. He had the idea of nailing up raised boxes into which players would attempt to throw a ball. When boxes couldn't be found, he used peach baskets. According to Alexander Wolff, in his book 100 Years of Hoops, Naismith drew up the rules for the new game in "about an hour." Most of them still apply in some form today. . . .
Am I suppose to give a crap!!!
Trump should buy the team and bench all of them.
President Trump is too busy "WINNING" to entertain a bunch of street thugs anyway.
Who gives an “F” about “The Thug Basketball Association”?
FWIW, per McPaper, team is “undecided”.
ROTF!!!
This turned out to be Fake News.
The team says the report is BS.
Trump doesn’t want these BLM terrorist supporting scumbags anywhere near the White House.
The team says the report is BS.
The team management is doing the typical PR double speak saying there hasn't been an invite issued and they would deal with it at that time...
The team has already said no such “vote” was taken. One would be amazed at how “unnamed sources” can get it wrong.
Michael Jordan? Yep, he was OK too.... but the quality of the sport was starting to slide at that point.
Now? It's not watchable.
But yet, they play in what’s likely a taxpayer-funded arena, like most teams these days. Because they’re too poor to actually build a structure in which to play.
Limo-liberals. Haters gonna hate.
When TRUMP won he went on a batshit tirade!
I knew there was a reason I don’t watch the NBA.
A team sponsored meeting? Not yet. Athohleets texting and talking with each other and trashing Trump and saying what they would and would not do?
Highly likely.
Also highly likely are unassociated rumormongers with no connection to the real facts tweeting out “reports” based on nothing but their own spin on the matter, and treating it as fact.
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