TNT Sports’ Chris Haynes reported Thursday on Inside the NBA that the Denver Nuggets would skip their scheduled visit to the White House on March 18 and instead focus on a game against the Minnesota Timberwolves the following night.
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The team intended to celebrate his 2022-23 name with the same old thing at the White House. Instead, he’ll spend a little more time preparing for the existing Western Conference berth.
The Nuggets (42-20) are in third place in the West standings and are just one game behind the Timberwolves (43-19).
The Nuggets lost Game 1 to the Timberwolves this season, but they face them three more times. With such a close race in the West, those games may well be the more sensible spot or give the tiebreaker to one of the two contenders.
The Nuggets were scheduled to stop at the White House in January while in Washington, D. C. to face the Washington Wizards, but scheduling problems at the White House canceled the event.
Skipping the ladder in the White House is the norm under President Donald Trump, given his regressive stances on player activism and loose rhetoric. This goes back to Colin Kaepernick’s resolution to kneel in protest of police brutality and racial profiling in 2016. and Trump’s incendiary reaction to the situation.
But the practice is no longer unusual since Biden took office, with the Milwaukee Bucks and Golden State Warriors visiting each other after their NBA titles.
The Nuggets have begun to look like the team that won the championship last season, going 6-1 since the All-Star break. While the Eastern Conference lately focuses on the NBA-leading Boston Celtics (48-13), the West has four teams in 2. 5 games of others at the top of the convention and six teams in four games battling for the final two spots.
It promises to be an exciting end to the season in the West as the groups battle for playoff position. The Nuggets are taking their chances in an attempt to win the most sensible job, even if it means snubbing the president of the United States.