{"id":1958680,"date":"2026-05-27T18:29:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T15:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1958680"},"modified":"2026-05-27T18:29:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T15:29:00","slug":"president-donald-trump-plans-to-attend-nba-finals-game-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1958680","title":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump plans to attend NBA Finals game in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Donald Trump said he plans to attend an NBA Finals game at Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I\u2019ll be going to one of the games,\u201d Trump said to reporters at the White House on Wednesday. The president added that he had been invited by \u201cnumerous people,\u201d including James Dolan, the owner of the New York Knicks and CEO of Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe don\u2019t know if President Trump is coming to the finals, but the president of the United States \u2014 no matter who is in office \u2014 is always welcome at all our venues,\u201d an MSG spokesperson said in a statement. Dolan has donated to Trump\u2019s campaigns in the past.<\/p>\n

Trump said he had planned to attend what would have been Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals on Wednesday, before the Knicks swept the Cleveland Cavaliers in four games. Now, the Knicks are heading to their first finals since 1999 and will play either the San Antonio Spurs or the Oklahoma City Thunder.<\/p>\n

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Trump\u2019s appearance would be a rare move for other sitting presidents, but he has made a habit of attending major sporting events during his second term, including the college football national championship and a New York Yankees game on Sept. 11. He also attended the U.S. Open men\u2019s singles final last year.<\/p>\n

He has been a presence on the New York sports stage in recent days. Last week, New York Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart <\/a>introduced Trump at a rally in New York, saying, \u201cWhat an honor, what a privilege it is to be here.\u201d The appearance led linebacker Abdul Carter to question Dart on social media, though he later said that he and Dart \u201care good.\u201d<\/p>\n

No NBA champion has visited the White House during Trump\u2019s time in office. Last year\u2019s champions, the Oklahoma City Thunder, cited a \u201ctiming issue\u201d<\/a> as the reason for being unable to visit. In an anonymous player poll<\/a> conducted by The Athletic <\/i>in April, NBA players were split on whether they would accept an invitation to the White House if they won the championship, with 53.4 percent (63 players) saying they would go and 46.6 percent (55 players) saying they would not.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump said he plans to attend an NBA Finals game at Madison Square Garden. \u201cI think I\u2019ll be going to one of the games,\u201d Trump said to reporters at the White House on Wednesday. The president added that he had been invited by \u201cnumerous people,\u201d including James Dolan, the owner of the New […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,241],"class_list":["post-1958680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-nytimes-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1958680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1958680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1958680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1958680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}