By: EFE 07 from January 2021
The current NBA champions, Los Angeles Lakers, announced this Thursday that they will make the traditional visit to the White House after the president elected, Democrat Joe Biden, takes office on 20 January . The visit to the US capital will take place during the current season, said the Los Angeles entity.
Since the Republican Donald Trump assumed the presidency no NBA champion team visited the White House, all in the framework of various protests against racism and police brutality in the United States that has created a gap between the current president and many of the NBA players and managers.
The electoral victory of Biden over President Trump was confirmed early this Thursday , a few hours after thousands of followers of the current president invaded the Capitol building, in Washington.
The elected president Joe Biden will be sworn in as the number one president 46 in American history. For its part, The Los Angeles Lakers still do not have an official date to visit Biden , since the NBA has only published the first half of its calendar, which runs until March 4.
In the decade of years 80, President Ronald Reagan began inviting the White House to all the national champion teams of professional and university sports in the country.
The victory Biden’s election generated many reactions from all over the sports world , including the ninth for the Washington Nationals invited the president-elect to make the inaugural launch of the season of 2021.
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