President Barack Obama accepts a Golden State Warriors jersey during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House on Feb. 4, 2016, where the president honored the 2015 NBA Champions. The morning after the Golden State Warriors won the 2017 NBA championship, the question began to circulate. Would the Warriors decline an invitation to go to the White House — one first extended by the sitting president to the newly crowned NBA champion in 1963, when John F. Kennedy welcomed Bill Russell's Boston Celtics, and a regular annual occurrence since the Reagan administration — to meet with President Donald Trump?