Michelle Obama and her brother Craig Robinson talked about the first time the former first lady introduced her family to Barack. 💞
Craig, the former head men's basketball coach at Oregon State University and Brown University, was not immediately down with that idea."I’m like, whoa, wait a minute, wait a minute. These are professionals I play with, we can’t just be bringing some guy there, it’ll make him look bad," he remembered telling his sister. "So I was like, 'Ugh, lemme figure out how to do this.
He then shared why it was important to Michelle that Barack shoot hoops with them."So we have this pickup game, and when you play pickup basketball, a lot is based on integrity. Because you have to call your own fouls, there are no referees," Craig explained. "And there’s always that guy who acts like he’s a good dude until he has to make his own calls, and he’s callin’ fouls all the time.
Michelle's brother was happy to report,"Barack wasn’t that guy, and that was good to see, that was the first thing. The second thing is, he could actually play a little bit. He wasn’t lying about that he played, about how good he was. He was just like, ‘I play a little bit.' It spoke a lot to his authenticity, as far as I was concerned."Craig added,"I'm glad it worked out.
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