Timothy Rapp@@TRappaRTIncluded Columnist IVMarch 8, 2024
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Chris Haynes of TNT Sports reported throughout Thursday’s Inside the NBA that the Denver Nuggets will avoid their arranged journey to the White House on March 18 and rather will concentrate on a match with the Minnesota Timberwolves the next night.
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The group was expected to be commemorating its 2022-23 title with the traditional journey to the White House. Rather, it will invest a bit more time getting ready for the existing front runner in the Western Conference.
The Nuggets (42-20) are 3rd in the West standings however simply one video game behind the Timberwolves (43-19).
The Nuggets lost the very first match with the Timberwolves this season however play them 3 more times. With such a tight race in the West, those video games might extremely well choose the front runner or offer among the 2 competitors the tiebreaker.
The Nuggets were at first set up to check out the White House in January when they remained in Washington D.C. to deal with the Washington Wizards, however scheduling concerns on the White House’s end nixed the occasion.
Avoiding the White House go to ended up being the standard throughout the presidency of Donald Trump, provided his regressive positions on gamer advocacy and liberty of speech. That went back to Colin Kaepernick’s choice to take a knee in demonstration of cops cruelty and racial discrimination back in 2016 and Trump’s inflammatory action to it.
The practice ended up being prevalent once again when Biden took workplace, and both the Milwaukee Bucks and Golden State Warriors made check outs after their NBA titles.
The Nuggets have actually started to look like the group that won the champion last season, going 6-1 because the All-Star break. While the Eastern Conference is everything about the NBA-leading Boston Celtics (48-13) at the minute, the West has 4 groups within 2.5 video games of one another atop the conference and 6 groups within 4 video games of one another fighting for the last 2 automated playoff berths.
It guarantees to be an amazing surface to the season out West as groups jockey for playoff positioning. The Nuggets aren’t taking any possibilities in the effort to win the front runner, even if it indicates snubbing the President of the United States.