Posted on 02/07/2015 12:15:19 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
After six years in office, President Obama says his basketball skills went from "nothing but net" to nothing.
"I’ll be honest with you: my game is a little broke, I've been a little busy," he told a crowd of students and faculty at Ivy Tech Community College in Indianapolis on Friday, where he touted his new plan to give students who meet certain academic standards two free years of community college.
"The risk-reward ratio starts shifting. The chances of an Achilles tear or an ACL injury is increasing each month, and then the satisfaction that I get from playing diminishes because I’m so bad. I think golf, likelihood of injury, much lower," Obama added.
Obama also balked at a suggestion that he play one-on-one against Tamika Catchings, a WNBA star who plays for the Indiana Fever.
The president is an avid basketball fan and played on his high school team in Hawaii. He traditionally plays basketball on Election Day and hit the court with former Chicago Bulls star Scottie Pippen before his 2012 reelection victory.
But he's much more likely to head to the links for a game of golf — it's become a regular fixture on his vacations, and Obama sometimes takes friends or other politicians out on the course with him. Mark Knoller, a reporter with CBS News, tweeted in October that the president hit his 200th game in office, and that was before his Christmas vacation in Hawaii.
Obama's frequent golfing has drawn criticism from some pundits and politicians.
So is your grammar, you effing idiot.
Well, maybe if he would play less golf he could practice more basketball. He should give up prayer breakfasts and such.
The rest of his administration isn't in much better shape.
Bingo. The only black guy on his high school basketball team, and he didn’t have enough game to come off the bench.
To be honest, Mr. president, it ain’t your basketball game that is broke.
I refer you to an adult saying, and if you were conscious enough in your younger ‘American’ life, you would remember a phrase stating that “your anatomy” is broke, or that you are a XXXXX XXXX!
Now, go back and work on your putts!
Too much golf will deaden your hops.
B0 considers himself a “pure shooter,” meaning he is a no-D ball-hog.
That’s why he was third string, sitting on the bench telling the coach how the offense should be run.
Nawwwww.....just more BS from this guy. His shooting mechanics are awful.
lol
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