(From Eamonn Brennan for Yahoo Sports)
If youre a hoops fan, you have at least one reason to enjoy our current president: Basketball is Obamas favorite sport, and he approaches it with the reverence of someone who both plays and spectates, someone who appreciates the game from all angles. But you knew all this before Barack Obama became president.
What you also probably knew, or maybe you havent noticed, is that for whatever reason, former Duke guard and Obama personal staffer Reggie Love cant convince Barack to wear a pair of shorts on the court. I dont get it. Heres yet more photographic evidence of Obamas absolute allergy to shorts:
Thats Obama and Love, and as youll see, Love looks ready for some pickup. Hes got his swag right. Even if those Nike runners look like theyd be really bad for ankle on the basketball court, still, hes ready to go.
Obama at least appears athletic, but he also looks like hes getting ready to go for a brisk morning walk with his dog. If he walked on to the basketball court looking like that, the people I play with would laugh. (This scenario assumes its not Barack Obama were laughing at; I dont think the DePaul student center crowd would really go for ridicule, given the hypothetical. But you know what I mean.)
Maybe dudes legs are just really skinny. Who knows?