Warriors coach Kerr, who visited US President Bill Clinton after championship wins as a player with the Chicago Bulls and Spurs, noted how Obama’s presidency would end early next year so he would become “a free agent”. “I don’t know if it necessarily about taking it to them or trying to set the pace of putting them back on their heels”. ‘For those of you that watched the game against the Wizards last night, he was – to use a slang phrase – he was “clowning”‘.
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And Obama gave the players something to compete over, saying shooting guard Thompson’s “jump shot is actually a little prettier”.
“Draymond Green shows us heart over height on every night”, President Obama said, per Rusty Simmons of the San Francisco Chronicle.
With the entire Warriors team and staff — including former players David Lee and Justin Holiday — standing behind him, the president joked that he had hoped Stephen Curry’s telegenic preschool-age daughter, Riley, would be on hand to provide “media training”. “He said Klay’s is nice”, Curry said. Now the Warriors team he coaches is a threat to both marks.
Steve Kerr is appreciative of President Barack Obama’s stance on gun control. “And you don’t get enough credit”, Obama said before pausing as the room chuckled in anticipation of the punch line.
“I can’t imagine how that feels”, he deadpanned, to laughs from the crowd.
Golden State Warriors basketball team Executive Board Jerry West, far right, is acknowledge by President Barack Obama during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2016, where the president honored the 2015 NBA Champions during a ceremony. And they play not just well but they play well together.
“They’re the kind of people you want representing a city, representing the National Basketball Association, and the kind of people that you want our kids to be rooting for”, he said.
“Maybe you’ll break that Bulls record.”
Golden State could have its eye on a major free-agent pickup in the offseason, as revealed by coach Steve Kerr Thursday at the White House.
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‘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. Which, man, that doesn’t seem fair.
