You and us both, President Obama.
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Afterward, Curry told reporters that listening to the president list off the team’s accomplishments was “surreal”.
Obama, a big Chicago Bulls fan, couldn’t help but reference the great Bulls teams from the 1990s.
“I thanked him for his work on gun control, which is an important political issue for me and my family”, Kerr said Thursday. 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 several occasions the night before, when he scored 51 points in a win over the Washington Wizards.
“In their commitment to the My Brother’s Keeper initiative, promoting mentoring in the Bay Area and nationwide, the team even met with some students in the White House mentoring program before the event. He was all jumping up and down”, Obama said. The president said it; I can’t argue with the president.
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”. “Yeah, I knew I was within reach”.
It was the latest success for the team, which has gone from strength to strength under coach Steve Kerr, earning the 2015 title and a visit to the White House.
Kerr informed the president that Warriors general manager Bob Myers had taken care to point out that Obama, in the final year of his second term, will be a “free agent” next year.
After Obama explained he would be “ready to go”, Kerr declared this as a “symbol of an offer that’s coming”.
Westbrook rolled his eyes and said, “Anybody else got any other questions?”
‘They play as a team the way basketball is supposed to be played.
“You always get inspired by some great play out there”, Curry said.
The Warriors are scoring 123.0 points during their eight-game win streak.
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“He made some unbelievable shots, and we know he can shoot the ball very well, and from time to time, he gets in one of those zones”, Wall said.
