{"id":17917,"date":"2024-11-20T15:03:51","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T15:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=17917"},"modified":"2024-11-20T15:03:51","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T15:03:51","slug":"celtics-to-celebrate-nba-championship-at-white-house-on-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=17917","title":{"rendered":"Celtics to celebrate NBA championship at White House on Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Celtics proved they\u2019re still the NBA\u2019s top dogs Tuesday night with a gritty win over previously unbeaten Cleveland.<\/p>\n

Next up on their schedule: one final public celebration of last season\u2019s championship team.<\/p>\n

Joe Mazzulla\u2019s squad will visit the White House on Thursday to be honored by President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019ll be cool,\u201d said Jayson Tatum, who scored a team-high 33 points in the 120-117 win over the Cavaliers<\/a> at TD Garden. \u201cOne of the perks of being a champion is going to the White House. You see most of the former teams attend, so we\u2019ll have that moment and take pictures and videos. It\u2019s something that\u2019ll last a lifetime.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Celtics will be the first Boston team to make the traditional champion\u2019s visit to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue since the Red Sox did so after their 2018 World Series win. The Patriots did not travel to the White House after their most recent Super Bowl victory in 2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s going to be fun,\u201d Derrick White said. \u201cThat\u2019s something that growing up, you see teams that won championships go to the White House and just kind of celebrate that moment together. Just to be one of those teams that won a championship and go to the White House and celebrate with a great team and great people, it\u2019s going to be a lot of fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

White added: \u201cI think it\u2019s going to be important just being with the team. Obviously, we\u2019re always close and we\u2019re always together, so this is another thing we can all do together and just kind of enjoy that moment as a team.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019ll be a first-time trip to America\u2019s most famous building for the majority of Boston\u2019s roster, as only guard Jrue Holiday won an NBA title before last season (with Milwaukee in 2021). Al Horford also visited the White House<\/a> in 2006 after winning a college national championship with Florida.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, that was awesome,\u201d Horford said. \u201cThat was a really cool experience getting to go to the White House to be there. We had a blast. They did the thing on the lawn outside in the courtyard. There were other college teams there, as well, so it was cool to interact with some of them and do that stuff. It\u2019s a really neat experience. It\u2019s an honor to be able to go to the White House.\u201d<\/p>\n

Horford, who had to wait 17 years for his first NBA championship, is looking forward to enjoying this visit with his teammates.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to be awesome,\u201d the 38-year-old said. \u201cI\u2019m excited about it. It\u2019s something that over the years you always watch all the champions go there, and that\u2019s kind of what is done. So being in this position, I\u2019m going to soak it all in.\u201d<\/p>\n

The only member of the Celtics who didn\u2019t express excitement over the trip was Mazzulla. Asked after Monday\u2019s practice whether he had any thoughts on visiting the White House, the head coach replied: \u201cNo, sir.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Celtics will visit the Washington Wizards on Friday night in their third of four NBA Cup group-play games.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Source: <\/em> politics.einnews.com\u2026<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Celtics proved they\u2019re still the NBA\u2019s top dogs Tuesday night with a gritty win over previously unbeaten Cleveland. Next up on their schedule: one final public celebration of last season\u2019s championship team. Joe Mazzulla\u2019s squad will visit the White House on Thursday to be honored by President Joe Biden. \u201cI think it\u2019ll be cool,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}