The Golden State Warriors were honoured Thursday at the White House on Thursday by President Barack Obama to celebrate their 2015 National Basketball Association championship last June.
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They are off to a historically strong start in their quest to defend their title, sporting a 45-4 record so far this season and Obama called their game “revolutionary”.
“There were (Harrison) Barnes dunks, Bogut blocks and Draymond Green showing us heart over height every single night”, the basketball-loving Obama, running through the Warriors’ championship victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers, said.
He also poked fun at Warriors sharpshooting guard Steph Curry “clowning” on the court.
Curry scored 51 points in the win in Washington, going 13-14 for 36 points in the first half and tying former Wizards Gilbert Arena and Chicago’s Michael Jordan’s Verizon Center record of 51 overall points.
Steve Kerr is appreciative of President Barack Obama’s stance on gun control.
‘Folks are saying that they are revolutionizing basketball… they’re so good that they seem to be just breaking the game itself.
‘Great shooting, great passing, a small ball nuclear line-up…it’s nearly not fair.
“They play not just well, they play well together”. He’s been asked time and again to compare the squad he played on with Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen to the team he leads now, but he’s never weighed in with a direct answer on who he think would win such a matchup. It’s lovely to watch when they’re working on all cylinders’.
Instead, Obama implied Warriors coach Steve Kerr was on the best team, when he played for the 1995-1996 Chicago Bulls.
Obama, who has made curbing gun violence a priority, noted in his remarks in the East Room of the White House that the Warriors “had players take a stand” against it, prompting applause from the crowd. “Either way, he’s got the record”.
And when Kerr presented the president with a Warriors jersey – No. 44, representative of the 44th president – near the end of the ceremony, Obama joked that had this been the Lakers he could not have accepted No. 44, which was worn by Lakers legend and Warriors board member Jerry West and is retired in Los Angeles.
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