The Bucks, Grizzlies and Mavericks have stopped staying at Donald Trump-branded hotels in order to avoid being associated with the businessman, Marc Stein and Zach Lowe of ESPN.com collectively report. Sources tell the duo that another Eastern Conference team set to stay at the Trumo SoHo in New York this season has already decided to switch to a different hotel once its contract expires at the end of the season. Seven other teams are currently scheduled to stay at Trump-branded hotels this season. ESPN has declined to reveal which teams will be staying at the locations.
Here’s more from around the league:
- Perry Jones III has signed with the Iowa Energy of the D-League, sources tell Chris Reichert of The Step Back (Twitter link).
- Cavs coach Tyronn Lue said he will not try to mend the fence between LeBron James and his former coach Phil Jackson, Dave McMenamin of ESPN.com tweets.
- Before signing with the Hawks, Dwight Howard told his mother he was going to sign with the Jazz and she didn’t take the fake news too well, as Koster Kennard of the Deseret News relays. “I played a prank on my mom,” Howard said to Doug Gottlieb of CBS Sports Radio. “I wanted to see her reaction, so I told her, I said, ‘Mom, I just got this big contract, $150 million.’ And she was like, ‘Oh my God, from who?’ I said, ‘Utah Jazz,’ and she started crying.”
Maybe we should stop supporting the Bucks, Grizzlies and Mavs.
Agreed. Not a Trump fan but the continual melodrama is quite babyish and getting tiresome.
Agreed
I mean, that would be your right to ignore basketball teams that will continue to have their place in the league, regardless of players political opinions. It’s reasonable that some people are very uncomfortable with whats to come in his presidency. Partly because of what he has said and I think in more cases, what he hasn’t said or has given contradictory positions on.
I heard the Trumo SoHo is beautiful though.