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No NBA champion has visited the White House since President Trump has been president. Then again, only one team has won the NBA championship during Trump’s tenure, the notoriously woke Golden State Warriors.

A police officer who alleges that Toronto Raptors President Masai Ujiri attacked and injured him after Game Six of the NBA Finals, has not ruled out filing a lawsuit against the Toronto executive.

Dramatic video of police subduing a suspected shooter at the Toronto Raptors victory parade on Monday, is making the rounds on Twitter.

TORONTO (AP) — Gunfire broke out and a stampede ensued as fans celebrated at a rally Monday for the NBA champion Raptors, leaving four people shot and thousands fleeing less than a block from where the players and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sat on stage.

Iran’s ex-president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, says that if he were still president he would invite the newly crowned NBA champion Toronto Raptors to Tehran, if he were still president.

In the moments following the Raptors Finals-clinching Game 6 victory over the Golden State Warriors, Toronto President of Basketball Operations Masai Ujiri was seen on camera in an altercation with a Sheriff’s Deputy.

The stereotype that all Canadians are friendly, was put to the test in Toronto last night during Game 5 of the NBA Finals.

If you thought games one and two of the NBA Finals were bad for TV ratings, Game Three fell even farther, hitting a 12-year low according to the numbers.

Toronto Raptors guard Kyle Lowry is furious that a Golden State Warriors fan reached over several seats and gave him a shove after the player crashed into the front row sideline seats during a dive for the ball.

Golden State Warriors Coach Steve Kerr wore a gun control shirt to Sunday’s NBA Finals game 2. 

Several NBA teams are considering moving away from the title “team owner,” because some are uncomfortable using the term in a majority black league.

Ratings for game two for the NBA Finals were a massive disappointment for the league according to the numbers, to make matters worse, game one was nearly as bad.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says that Jerry West, the pro basketball great, will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

It’s been awhile since the NBA Finals have not included LeBron James, and if the ratings following Game 1 are any indication, the Association will need him back in the championship series as soon as possible.

Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr describes the gun control movement as his movement.

Dallas Mavericks Owner Mark Cuban recently made a series of suggestions about how to “update” the Second Amendment to give states more power to regulate guns.

Rap superstar Drake has made his presence felt during the NBA Eastern Conference Finals. Complete with taunts to opposing players and shoulder massages for his team’s coach.

May 23 (UPI) — Green Bay Packers star quarterback Aaron Rodgers couldn’t compete with teammate and offensive lineman David Bakhtiari in a beer-chugging competition during Game 5 of the NBA Eastern Conference finals.

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver recently said that TV ratings for Midwest and East Coast games have slumped since LeBron James headed west.

May 21 (UPI) — Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick joined Golden State Warriors players in celebrating their Western Conference finals sweep of the Portland Trail Blazers.

If the Portland Trail Blazers manage to battle back to defeat the mighty Golden State Warriors and reach the NBA Finals, there is a good chance that Enes Kanter will have had something to do with it.

Sen. Ron Wyden (D, OR) sent a letter to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on behalf of Portland Trail Blazers player Enes Kanter, asking for his “safe passage” to and from Canada for all Western Conference Finals games against Toronto.

Dallas Mavericks Owner Mark Cuban said this week that no current candidate seeking the Democrat nomination could beat President Trump in 2020. He also hinted that he might run for president as an independent.

Trail Blazers center Enes Kanter will compete on the biggest stage of his NBA career on Monday night, when Portland faces the Golden State Warriors in Game 1 of the NBA Western Conference Finals.

TNT host Charles Barkley took yet another swipe at Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid telling Embiid he can “kiss my ass.”

A video of Dallas Mavericks forward Kristaps Porzingis with a bloodied face outside of an establishment in his native Latvia, led to claims that the star forward had been involved in a fight with a “group of Russians” who were upset that he had switched NBA teams.

The NBA has suffered a large, four percent drop in TV ratings in three of its biggest television markets, according to a report.

Despite a small rise in viewers last weekend, the NBA playoffs are still sinking in the ratings, according to the numbers.

After a video emerged of a Broward County, Florida, police officer slamming a black teenager’s head into the ground, and then punching him. Golden State Warriors Steve Kerr seemed to blame the entire country for the incident.

Michael Avenatti has been accused of embezzling $2.5 million from a negotiated payment Miami Heat player Hassan Whiteside thought he was making to his former girlfriend, Alexis Gardner, according to prosecutors.

Students at the LeBron James-supported “I Promise” school in Akron, Ohio, have earned huge gains in test scores, according to reports.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Magic Johnson abruptly quit as the Los Angeles Lakers’ president of basketball operations Tuesday night, citing his desire to return to the simpler life he enjoyed as a wealthy businessman and beloved former player before taking charge of this tempestuous franchise just over two years ago.

In a long op-ed at the Players’ Tribune, white Utah Jazz player Kyle Korver blamed white people for “inequality” and “racism” in America. Specifically, Korver insisted that white men today are “responsible” for all the racism of their ancestors.

LeBron James did not hold back when describing how significant he felt the murder of his friend, rapper Nipsey Hussle, truly was. The Lakers forward called Hussle’s death “one of the most unfortunate events” in American history.

Former Knicks player Charles Oakley claimed in a recent interview that Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, is considering purchasing the Knicks from current Owner James Dolan.

New York (AFP) – Dallas Mavericks forward Kristaps Porzingis is being investigated in New York after being accused of raping a woman last year, the New York Post reported on Saturday.