Pelosi and Lee invite Warriors to Capitol instead of Trump’s White House

FILE-- Nancy Pelosi during Golden State Warriors' victory parade down Broadway in Oakland on Friday, June 19, 2015. FILE-- Nancy Pelosi during Golden State Warriors' victory parade down Broadway in Oakland on Friday, June 19, 2015. Photo: Scott Strazzante / The Chronicle Photo: Scott Strazzante / The Chronicle Image 1 of / 109 Caption Close Pelosi and Lee invite Warriors to Capitol instead of Trump’s White House 1 / 109 Back to Gallery

U.S. Reps. Nancy Pelosi and Barbara Lee on Tuesday invited the Golden State Warriors to Washington, D.C., days after President Trump said the NBA Finals winner would not be welcomed to the White House.

Lee and Pelosi sent a letter to Coach Steve Kerr as the team celebrated its victory with a parade through Oakland.

“In celebration of your victory, we would be delighted to welcome you publicly as a team or personally as families to the United States Capitol,” the Bay Area representatives said. “Please consider this as a blanket invitation whenever your individual schedules allow.”

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Last week, LeBron James of the runner-up Cleveland Cavaliers said neither team would accept an offer to go to the White House, and the Warriors’ Stephen Curry backed him up. Trump said that “we’re not going to invite either team.”

“I hope to be in that situation and win two more games where we win a championship and obviously know what comes with that,” Curry said last week, before the team won. “But I think I agree with LeBron. Pretty sure the way we handled things last year, kind of stay consistent with that.”

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Last year, after Curry told reporters that he would prefer not to go to the White House to celebrate the team’s second NBA title, Trump tweeted that going to the White House “is considered a great honor for a championship team. Stephen Curry is hesitating, therefore invitation is withdrawn!”

Instead, the team made a February trip to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.

Hamed Aleaziz is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: haleaziz@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @haleaziz