Barack Obama on Thursday, February, 4 hosted the
winners of the 2015 NBA title, the Golden State Warrior at the White House.
The Warriors defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers in
last year’s NBA finals to win their first championship for 40 years. They have
made a record start in their bid to retain the crown with 45 wins and only four
defeats so far this season and the U.S president called their game
'revolutionary'.
Obama tried to mimic some of Curry's jumping up
and down on the court when he's playing particularly well, which Curry did on
Wednesday night when he scored 51 points in a 134-121 victory over the
Washington Wizards.
"He was clowning," Obama said.
“To think
that you would be the president, that’s one of those goals where it’s like
playing in the NBA. It’s so far-fetched that you don’t know how you’re going to
get there,” said Green, a 25-year-old power forward. “So you can dream of it,
you can believe it, but what’s the odd of it really happening?
The team presented Obama with the obligatory No.
44 team jersey, since he is the nation's 44th president. Kerr noted that Obama
would be a free agent at the end of the year.
"Consider this a symbol of an offer that's
coming," Kerr said as he presented Obama with the jersey and the president
demonstrated his shooting form.
Obama, a big Chicago Bulls fan, couldn't help but
reference the great Bulls teams from the 1990s. He jokingly told the Warriors
at the beginning of the ceremony that it's rare to be in the presence of guys
who are part of one of the greatest teams in NBA history.
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