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Revisiting why the 2019 Mystics didn’t get a championship parade and a White House visit

Last week, we took a look at where the players on the 2019 Washington Mystics were, five years after their championship. Typically, when a professional sports team, including the WNBA champions, wins it all, they get a championship parade in the city and visit the White House the following season where the President of the United States congratulates them.

Let’s see what happened last time a professional basketball team in D.C. won a championship, what the 2019 Mystics received and why some of these things didn’t happen.

The 1977-78 Washington Bullets were the last professional basketball team to win a championship and had traditional treatment — maybe more than traditional in some respects.