Obama salutes NBA champs at White House

They are also a top-10 rebounding team, grabbing 24.6 percent of offensive rebounds.

The Warriors forward stopped short of sitting down.

Afterward, Curry told reporters that listening to the president list off the team’s accomplishments was “surreal”. “He watches the game”.

“He made some unbelievable shots”, Wall said of Curry.

“That is not the case”, Obama jokingly scolded the NBA MVP.

President Obama’s budding bromance with basketball star Stephen Curry was on full display Thursday during the Golden State Warriors’ visit to the White House.

Obama summed up the 2014-15 Warriors as an entity who achieved some major goals despite being constantly doubted by “the critics”. I’m running out of ways to say “wow”. He seemed very appreciative.

“It’s an important issue for us”, Kerr reflected of gun control. “Although maybe Teddy Roosevelt used it somewhere in there, I don’t know”. “There’s a great divide, but I’m on his side”.

Per tradition, the National Basketball Association champion Warriors, who now lead the National Basketball Association standings with a 44-4 record, will be honored in the nation’s capital by President Barack Obama.

Malcolm Kerr, Kerr’s father, was assassinated in 1984 at age 52 by gunmen in Lebanon, where he served as president of the American University of Beirut.

And while the president will have more than smiles and handshakes for the players, the Warriors will be bearing their own gifts.

“If he’s down, I’m down”, Curry said.

Washington Wizards head coach Randy Wittman put his grief aside for a while and carried on to coach his team last Saturday night. “He was all jumping up and down”.

Curry isn’t the traditional candidate – one who elevates from a role player to a star – for this award. To Curry and the 45-4 Warriors, any team playing can look bad.

You defied the cynics.

“I can’t imagine how that feels”, he said in a tone tinged with more than a little sarcasm.

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”.

“I’m going to the White House”, Holiday said.

What’s even more impressive is that Curry accomplished this feat relatively quickly – he played just 36 minutes and dumped in 25 points in the first quarter alone.

Meanwhile, New York Knicks rookie sensation Kristaps Porzingis was apparently in the radar of another team during the 2015 NBA Draft. His Warriors might also break Jordan’s 1995-96 Chicago Bulls’ record of 72 regular-season wins. He came one three 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. So keep shooting, Steph – not that he needs any encouragement, obviously. “One of the greatest of all time, the logo, Jerry West”, said President Obama before turning around and clapping in recognition of Jerry West. The President could even be heard saying what appeared to be, “The greatest standing ovation”, off the mic.