Donald Trump has not invited the Golden State Warriors to the White House, but they’re officially welcome to bring the Larry O’Brien Trophy to Washington. Members of Congress led by House minority leader Nancy Pelosi has officially sent a letter to the team saying the Warriors can visit Congress.
Though some reports prematurely indicated the Warriors will not visit the White House, the official team statement is that they will address it once they are invited. But according to SB Nation, Pelosi sent a letter to Warriors coach Steve Kerr with an official invite to Washington before Trump’s White House could decide what to do with the Warriors.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) invited the Warriors to Capitol Hill, according to a letter obtained by SB Nation. The two Bay Area lawmakers wrote that the Warriors make the “Bay Area and indeed the country deeply proud.”
“In celebration of your victory, we would be delighted to welcome you publicly as a team or personally as families to the United States Capitol,” Pelosi and Lee wrote to Steve Kerr and the team. “Please consider this as a blanket invitation whenever your individual schedules allow.”
The Warriors have not commented on the invite, or the White House’s lack of invite for that matter. But now that Congress has extended a welcome, the team will have to make some sort of decision one way or another. This may be a move to force the White House to either invite the Warriors or publicly say they’re not allowed in Trump’s White House, though given the political leanings on the team it seems like an invite would only lead to rejection, something Trump isn’t exactly eager to endure.
