{"id":69582,"date":"2026-03-20T16:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T21:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/nba-champion-oklahoma-city-thunder-wont-visit-white-house-citing-timing-issue\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T16:55:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T21:55:00","slug":"nba-champion-oklahoma-city-thunder-wont-visit-white-house-citing-timing-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/nba-champion-oklahoma-city-thunder-wont-visit-white-house-citing-timing-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA champion Oklahoma City Thunder won\u2019t visit White House, citing \u2018timing issue\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Team says \u2018timing just didn\u2019t work out\u2019 for visit<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>No NBA team has visited during a Trump presidency<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The reigning NBA champion Oklahoma City Thunder will not visit the White House during their trip to the nation\u2019s capital this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>A Thunder spokesperson confirmed Friday that a \u201ctiming issue\u201d will prevent the team from making the traditional appearance. Oklahoma City face the Wizards in Washington on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/20\/oklahoma-city-thunder-white-house-visit-trump\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team says \u2018timing just didn\u2019t work out\u2019 for visit No NBA team has visited during a Trump presidency The reigning NBA champion Oklahoma City Thunder will not visit the White House during their trip to the nation\u2019s capital this weekend. A Thunder spokesperson confirmed Friday that a \u201ctiming issue\u201d will prevent the team from making &#8230; <a title=\"NBA champion Oklahoma City Thunder won\u2019t visit White House, citing \u2018timing issue\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/nba-champion-oklahoma-city-thunder-wont-visit-white-house-citing-timing-issue\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about NBA champion Oklahoma City Thunder won\u2019t visit White House, citing \u2018timing issue\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}