President Donald Trump is expected to attend one or two NBA Finals games next week in New York after receiving an invitation from New York Knicks owner James Dolan.
“The answer is yes,” Trump said Thursday when asked about attending the championship series between the Knicks and the San Antonio Spurs. “(Dolan) has invited me, and I’m going. I’ll be there. It could be Monday (for Game 3). Maybe I’ll do both (with Game 4 on Wednesday).”
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said the president’s presence would require heightened security at Madison Square Garden but would not disrupt the event.
“I am sure there will be announcements about coming early,” Silver said. “But I think fans are very understanding of that. They recognize that it adds to the bigness of the event.”
Trump would become the first sitting U.S. president to attend an NBA Finals game. The last sitting president to attend a regular-season NBA game was Barack Obama in 2015.
