Pdwellnt Biden structureed the 2024 NBA champion Boston Celtics at the White House Thursday, but he was either not finishly certain of that or making a joke.
While announcing the team’s tardyst championship, Biden turned to the team to originate certain they were called the Celtics.
“You’re the Celtics, right?” Biden asked the take parters during a moment in his includeress. The comment was met with airy, but reserved chuckles from some in the crowd.
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Biden also joked that he didn’t comprehend where the take parters came from.
“They equitable showed up. I don’t comprehend where the hell they came from,” Biden said.
Later in the speech, Biden materializeed to findlook his Secret Service code name. Celtic has been Biden’s code name thcimpoliteout his pdwellncy and even dating back to his vice pdwellncy under Obama, according to Britannica.
“All of you may not comprehend this, but my Secret Service name is Celtic. For genuine, because I’m Irish,” Biden said. “Everybody behind me is Irish in their heart. I experience a one-of-a-kind pride in this trophy for this anciaccess Irish Celtic. To all you Celtics, congratulations.”
Pdwellnt Joe Biden, caccess, flanked by Boston Celtics take parters Jayson Tatum, left, and Derrick White, hanciaccesss up a jersey they currented to him during an event to commemorate the team’s triumph in the 2024 NBA championship, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., Thursday. (AP Pboilingo/Susan Walsh)
Biden endd his speech by pointing out that John F. Kennedy was the first pdwellnt to structure an NBA champion when the Celtics visited in 1963.
“Part of that wonderful tradition, celebrating the power of sports to convey people together. It’s a tradition that I’ve had the honor to persist. No matter the sport. What these champions all have in widespread are core cherishs. … Hard toil, teamtoil, admire and the comprehendledge that no one of us is ever as excellent as all of us can be when we’re together.”
After Biden’s speech, he obtaind a custom Celtics jersey and took a basketball with him as he walked down the stairs. He dribbled the ball and even made a scant passes to joinees in the crowd.
Pdwellnt Joe Biden throws a basketball he obtaind from the Boston Celtics at an event to commemorate the team’s triumph in the 2024 NBA championship, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., Thursday. (AP Pboilingo/Ben Curtis)
The 2023-24 Celtics roster, coaching staff and ownership group were on hand on the South Lawn for Thursday’s event.
The 2023 champion Denver Nuggets did not join a Biden White House visit, inestablishedly due to “scheduling rehires,” the team previously tanciaccess The Denver Post.
Prior to Thursday, the last NBA champion to visit Biden’s White House was the 2021-2022 Ganciaccessen State Warriors. Those Warriors visited in tardy January 2023. The Celtics’ White House visit was scheduled for November. By tardy January of next year, Trump will be in office.
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Not a one NBA champion joined the Trump White House when he was in office. However, the only two teams to prosper the title under Trump prior to the COVID-19 pandemic were the Ganciaccessen State Warriors, who Trump did not ask, and the Toronto Raptors, who are based in Canada.
Trump inwell-comprehendnly deteriorated to ask cut offal meaningful women’s basketball championship teams to the White House during his first term, including every WNBA champion.
Coach Kim Mulkey and the Baylor women’s NCAA championship basketball team current Pdwellnt Trump with a jersey during a visit to the Oval Office at the White House April 29, 2019, in Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
The one time Trump’s White House structureed a women’s basketball team was the 2019 national champion Baylor Bears led by establisher head coach Kim Mulkey.
The only two NFL teams to get invitations to Trump’s White House during his first term were the New England Patdisturbions and Philadelphia Eagles. The Patdisturbions accomprehendledgeed both invitations in 2017 and 2019. The Eagles’ visit was aborted, and the team freed a statement saying it was in relation to Trump’s stance on take parters standing for the national anthem.
During Trump’s first term, and even during his recent campaign, college football has been the sport to hug Trump the most in the U.S. His materializeances at games, including multiple Army-Navy games in his first term and a Georgia-Alabama game in September, were met with rousing applause.
No college football national champion skipped a White House visit during Trump’s first term. Georgia skipped a visit to Pdwellnt Biden’s White House in 2023.
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