'Hard no': Raptors' Danny Green says NBA champs won't visit Trump White House
After the Toronto Raptors clinched the NBA championship earlier this month, President Donald Trump praised the Canadian team for playing “phenomenal basketball” and said he was considering inviting them to the White House. “If they’d like to do it, we’ll think about that,” the president told reporters last week of the potential invitation.
“To put it politely, I think it’s a hard no,” the native New Yorker continued, adding that Trump would surely “take his invite back” if he heard the Raptors rebuffed his request. Raptors to the White House?— Yahoo Sports Canada June 22, 2019 Raptors head coach Nick Nurse sidestepped a question last week about whether his team would accept a White House invitation.
“You know, we’re here. Let’s go see Trudeau up in Ottawa. We’re Canada’s team,” Nurse told radio station 590 Prime Time Sports.The city’s mayor, Jim Watson, has urged the team to “forget the White House for a victory lap” and “come to ... parliament hill so Canada can congratulate you.” — Jim Watson June 14, 2019 The Raptors won the NBA championship on June 13 after besting the reigning NBA champions, the Golden State Warriors, in six games.
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