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NBA champion Warriors skipping the White House visit, as a unanimous team decision per reports.
Twitter ^ | 6-13-2017

Posted on 06/13/2017 10:29:55 AM PDT by Snickering Hound

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To: Snickering Hound
No comment by poster?
No response by me.
61 posted on 06/13/2017 11:08:10 AM PDT by publius911 (Less Tweets More Golf! it works!!!)
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62 posted on 06/13/2017 11:12:26 AM PDT by SparkyBass
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To: rfp1234

The ‘92 Blue Jays did visit the White House (Bush 1).

Sports champions didn’t regularly get White House invites until Reagan.


63 posted on 06/13/2017 11:12:46 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Snickering Hound
That's good, because having black basketball players at the White House would mean that Trump supports cultural appropriation, since basketball was invented by a white man and originally played by men who happened to be white (at a college in a state where there was no slavery, BTW).

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. . . .

64 posted on 06/13/2017 11:14:00 AM PDT by Maceman (Let's ban Muslims temporarily -- just until non-Muslims can freely practice their religions in Mecca)
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To: Snickering Hound

Am I suppose to give a crap!!!


65 posted on 06/13/2017 11:22:02 AM PDT by ontap
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Trump should buy the team and bench all of them.


66 posted on 06/13/2017 11:24:36 AM PDT by JWNM
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NBA champion Warriors skipping the White House visit, as a unanimous team decision per reports.

President Trump is too busy "WINNING" to entertain a bunch of street thugs anyway.

67 posted on 06/13/2017 11:26:12 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (The Bilderbergers are attempting to overthrow the Constitutionally Elected President)
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To: ontap

Who gives an “F” about “The Thug Basketball Association”?


68 posted on 06/13/2017 11:26:42 AM PDT by gathersnomoss
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To: Jim 0216

FWIW, per McPaper, team is “undecided”.

ROTF!!!


69 posted on 06/13/2017 11:27:17 AM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: gathersnomoss

This turned out to be Fake News.

The team says the report is BS.


70 posted on 06/13/2017 11:27:54 AM PDT by Bushite
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To: Snickering Hound

Trump doesn’t want these BLM terrorist supporting scumbags anywhere near the White House.


71 posted on 06/13/2017 11:27:57 AM PDT by Newtoidaho (Proud member of Trump's army of online trolls.)
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To: Bushite
This turned out to be Fake News.

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...

72 posted on 06/13/2017 11:31:56 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Louis Foxwell

The team has already said no such “vote” was taken. One would be amazed at how “unnamed sources” can get it wrong.


73 posted on 06/13/2017 11:35:59 AM PDT by ScottinVA ( Liberals' agony is my entertainment.)
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To: Snickering Hound
Let them go and visit Obama.
74 posted on 06/13/2017 11:52:57 AM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: lesko
I loved the NBA as a kid. We'd get into fights over Magic and Bird, and everyone wanted to do a finger-roll like Dr. J.

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.

75 posted on 06/13/2017 11:55:23 AM PDT by wbill
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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.


76 posted on 06/13/2017 11:57:41 AM PDT by meyer (The Constitution says what it says, and it doesn't say what it doesn't say.)
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It's because of their left wing loon Coach Steve Kerr

When TRUMP won he went on a batshit tirade!

77 posted on 06/13/2017 11:58:06 AM PDT by KavMan
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I knew there was a reason I don’t watch the NBA.


78 posted on 06/13/2017 12:00:26 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: ScottinVA
The team has already said no such “vote” was taken. One would be amazed at how “unnamed sources” can get it wrong.

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.

79 posted on 06/13/2017 12:03:13 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Snickering Hound

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.


80 posted on 06/13/2017 12:08:16 PM PDT by ScottinVA ( Liberals' agony is my entertainment.)
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