The Audacity Of Hoops
April 14, 2008 at 10:32 pm
Barack Obama’s been having a lousy couple of days. So it’s probably a welcome respite for him that HBO’s “Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel” debuting Tuesday night focuses on his love of basketball.
The timing couldn’t be better, coming shortly before the Pennsylvania primary. Obama tells Gumbel that as a kid he had this famous poster of Julius Erving as a Philadelphia 76er, playing at the Spectrum:
And basketball-crazed Indiana is next on the schedule. Maybe we’ll see him playing hoops in public there.
There’s an ironic moment in the program when Obama jokes that if he wins the presidency, he’d tear down the White House bowling alley and replace it with a basketball court. Yes, the interview was conducted a month ago, well before Obama bowled a 37 in Altoona. If Obama wins in November, he want to keep the bowling alley.
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