Warriors honored at White House

“So we’re pretty lucky today that we’ve got one of those players in the house — Steve Kerr”, Obama said, referring to the Warriors coach, who also played on those Bulls teams.

“We want you, as soon as your duties are done in the White House, to be the leader of Dub Nation”, Kerr said.

“I already met President Obama”, Curry said, with a smile.

“I thanked him for his work on gun control, which is an important political issue for me and my family”, Kerr said Thursday, via the San Jose Mercury News.

Guard Stephen Curry, the reigning NBA MVP, will be making his second trip to the White House.

He kidded Curry for blaming his loss in their offseason golf outing in part due to the presence of armed Secret Service agents on the course and promised another round in the future.

There have been moments this season when the Thunder has gone small to take down its opposition (Ex.: OKC’s rout of the Memphis Grizzlies on December 8), but against the Golden State Warriors this weekend, the Warriors’ best lineup is with the 6-foot-6 Draymond Green at center. “He said Klay’s is nice”, Curry said. “Everybody, besides Coach [Steve] Kerr and Luke Walton, it’s their first time [at the White House] so we’ll be excited”.

President Barack Obama strode into a room thick with humanity, a broad bank of cameras dominating the back and at least a score of photographers, mini-ladders in tow, ringing the side reserved for standing-room only observers. “He just made them”.

“The point is, this is a great basketball team, but it’s a great organization, it’s a great culture”, he explained. “You can’t mess around with the basketball gods trying to chase a record if the game doesn’t call for it”. But as Coach Kerr pointed out, he wins either way. The president said it; I can’t argue with the president.

He came one 3 short of tying the single-game record, and though it was on his mind, he didn’t start popping shots just to reach it as the game got out of hand.

Obama wasn’t able to keep to the theme of the Warriors the entire speech, making sure to fit in a comment about his hometown team.