Flavor Flav announced he’ll host a four-day event called “She Got Game” in Las Vegas from July 16 through July 19 to honor the U.S. women’s ice hockey team’s gold medal win on the Milano Cortina Olympics — together with other female Olympians and Paralympians who won medals for the US.
Flav announced the event Thursday on X and said it is going to be held in partnership with MGM Resorts International.
Details on the ‘She Got Game’ Las Vegas Event
In a February 24 Instagram video, Flav laid out an ambitious vision for the celebration.
“I need to go larger and higher. I need to bring all United States female Olympians and Paralympians, those that won medals,” he said.
The event guarantees to incorporate a parade, entertainment and other festivities across the four-day stretch.
“I’m going to provide them a parade, they’re definitely going to have a parade. After which also, I’m going to see what form of entertainment that I can put together,” he said.
Flav shared what he described as a proper email invitation offering the ladies’s hockey team a Las Vegas trip for “an actual celebration” with dinners and shows.
“It looks historical, it looks fun and it looks like whoever comes out to this event goes to have a rattling good time,” he added.
What Sparked the Celebration
The concept didn’t come out of nowhere. In a February 25 interview with USA Today, Flav said the celebration was sparked after President Donald Trump said he would “probably be impeached” if he didn’t invite the ladies’s team to the State of the Union address together with the boys.
That comment got here during a locker-room call wherein Trump was congratulating the boys’s team on their 2-1 additional time victory over Canada. Through the call, Trump said: “We’re going to should bring the ladies’s team, you do know that.”
He later joked he would “probably be impeached” if he didn’t extend the invitation.
Hockey star Hilary Knight fired back over President Donald Trump’s joke about inviting Team USA’s gold medal-winning hockey team to the White House. “We just thought the joke was distasteful and unlucky,” Knight, 36, told reporters on Wednesday, February 25. “I feel, just the best way women are represented, it’s an excellent teaching point to actually […]
The invitation followed the ladies’s team declining to attend Trump’s State of the Union address. USA Hockey cited logistics and travel issues in declining the invitation for the ladies to affix the boys’s gold medal-winning team.
Flav took issue with how the invitation played out.
“The invitation that was given to the ladies, it was some form of mediocre invitation,” Flav said. “So, I’m like, ‘hey, listen, it’s okay. I’ll offer you guys a celebration. Don’t even worry about it.’”
Response From Players and USA Hockey
Hilary Knight, a forward on the gold medal-winning women’s team, said in a February 25 interview on ESPN that the president’s comments were “a distasteful joke” that’s “overshadowing a whole lot of the success” of the ladies in Italy.
Melissa Katz, a representative for USA Hockey, offered a more measured response. In an announcement, Katz said the team is “honored and grateful for the invitations and support they’ve received” and that they’ll “engage with the opportunities as their schedules permit.”
An Inclusive Celebration
While the event is centered on honoring women, Flav made it clear the celebration is supposed to be inclusive. In his interview with USA Today, Flav said all athletes can be welcome to support the ladies’s delegation.
“This is basically for all athletes that’s on the market, busting their butt and doing job to make United States look good,” Flav said. “I need (the boys) to be here, I need them to come back out in order that they might help support their fellow women athletes.”
Gold medalists Grace Zumwinkle #13, Hilary Knight #21 and Taylor Heise #27 of Team United States. Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images
Event Partners and Next Steps
Flav’s representative said MGM Resorts and women-led sports media company The Gist will partner on the event.
MGM Resorts confirmed its participation in a February 26 statement.
“Planning is underway and details shall be shared soon as we get able to have fun our incredible USA athletes in a way only MGM Resorts knows how,” the corporate said.
This is way from the primary time Flavor Flav has shown up for Team USA. He previously served because the official hypeman for Team USA Bobsled and Skeleton in Italy and for U.S. water polo teams in Paris in the course of the 2024 Summer Games.
Details on specific entertainment, parade routes and ticketing haven’t yet been announced.