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Barack Obama - Presidential Basketball Legend"That's what I do. You don't understand. That's what I do," Barack Obama's hearty preening at Michigan''s Northwestern High School basketball court left a trail of chuckles at a Joe Biden campaign pitstop two days before the American presidential election. While some search for keywords -- approving or disapproving of their political leaders -- in Obama's new book, A Promised Land, the tome on one of the USA's most celebrated presidencies has devoted one of its finest chapters to the author and his enduring relationship with basketball. The media has reported that Obama played on both the junior and university teams at Hawaii's Punahou School in the 1970s, and eventually won a state championship in 1979. "Barry Obama", an NBC report quoted former teammate Mark Bendix as saying, Obama ought to have been a starter at Punahou. Bendix says: "He had a pretty good shot and really handled the ball well." Former coach Chris McLachlin told NBC: "He (Obama) would carry his books in one hand and his ball in the other. He lived across the street from school and before classes he'd shoot baskets on the outside courts, then at lunch he'd shoot more baskets, then I'd have him for three hours, then he'd go home, eat supper, and then be outside again shooting baskets." There's a 1979 picture of Obama, wearing a rich mop of afro on his head, taking a jump shot over a defender at the Honolulu top private school. He'd come off the bench and help them win a state championship in his senior year. Coach Mike Zinn at Occidental College recalled to The Los Angeles Times in 2007: "He wasn't a great outside shooter. In basketball terminology, he was kind of a slasher. He was left-handed. He went left well, didn't go right that well. He had a nose for the ball, always came up with loose balls and rebounds inside. So if he got 10 points in a game, most of them were probably under the basket. He didn't hit jump shots from 15 feet or anything like that, like he does today. He was a good defender, definitely a good athlete." Obama actually became a better shooter with age, as verified in the slideshow. Obama was playing competitive basketball into his 50's. He has made a lot of friends with professional athletes. Many of them he has played in basketball pickup games and rounds of golf. |
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