New York Knicks guard Jalen Brunson said the NBA \u2060champions have not yet discussed visiting the White House to celebrate their title, according to an interview conducted by Variety.<\/p>\n
Brunson\u2019s admission comes after Knicks owner James Dolan \u200bsaid the franchise had already accepted an \u200cinvitation to \u200cmake a visit to Washington.<\/p>\n
\u201c… People are making assumptions and saying everything, but together we haven\u2019t discussed it yet, and \u2060so we\u2019ll cross that bridge when we get to it,\u201d Brunson \u2060said in a story published Monday by Variety.<\/p>\n
Dolan, a friend of U.S. President \u200bDonald Trump, said \u2060last month that a visit to the White House was in the works, \u2060pending \u201cdetails.\u201d Trump \u200bwas a guest of Dolan\u2019s during Game \u200b3 of the NBA Finals in \u200bNew \u200cYork.<\/p>\n
No NBA champion has visited the White House while Trump has been in office, starting with his first term. Three NBA champions \u200cvisited President Joe Biden: the 2021 Milwaukee Bucks, the 2022 Golden State Warriors and the 2024 Boston Celtics.<\/p>\n
MLB\u2019s Los Angeles Dodgers, who won last year\u2019s World \u200bSeries, \u200bare scheduled to visit the White House \u200bon Thursday. The Dodgers also visited last year \u2060to celebrate their 2024 title.<\/p>\n
Brunson was named NBA Finals MVP following the Knicks\u2019 triumph over the San Antonio Spurs in five games. He \u200bscored 45 points in the title-clinching win, averaged 32.6 points in the Finals and scored 28.4 points in 19 playoff games.<\/p>\n
New York\u2019s title was the franchise\u2019s first since 1973.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Knicks guard Jalen Brunson said the NBA \u2060champions have not yet discussed visiting the White House…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,1376,19284,459,2901,82],"class_list":["post-820422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-donald-trump","tag-jalen-brunson","tag-nba","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}