The former president is a huge fan of the San Antonio Spurs' biggest star.
podcast, former President Barack Obama had a laid-back conversation with Indiana Pacers guard Tyrese Haliburton, where he shared his admiration forObama, an avid basketball fan and Spurs appreciator, didn’t hold back his praise for the towering 7-foot-4 center.
“It’s hard to take your eyes off Wembanyama when he’s on the court,” Obama told Haliburton. “You’re too young to remember when Durant first came in the league. That was freakish. You just hadn’t seen somebody that tall with that skill set.” Obama, being the basketball historian he is, also threw it back to the days of Magic Johnson and Larry Bird.
"You’re definitely not old enough to remember Magic and Bird," Obama said. "People forget how tall Bird was. Bird was like a legit 6-foot-9 and Magic was 6-foot-9. Those guys were doing things that, up until that point, big men hadn’t done.”“He makes the rest of y’all look tiny," he said with a laugh.
Obama's admiration for the Spurs extended back to his presidency, as he recalled hosting Tim Duncan and the Spurs at the White House following their fifth NBA championship in 2014.
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