While President Obama has been hitting the links to practice his golf swing often recently, it’s actually his jump shot may need a lot more work.
Obama on Monday managed a measly 2 – 22 from the field at a basketball court during the White House Easter Egg Roll, according to a pool report. A group of children and members of the NBA team the Washington Wizards accompanied the president on the court.
“Oh, man,” he said, after missing a shot.
“Come on. Come on. Did you see that?” an exasperated Obama added after another shot that bounced off the rim.
More from the White House pool report:
It got worse.
A little while later, after playing tennis, Obama started to take shots amid the kids and pros.
Miss. Miss. Off the rim. Miss. Miss. Off the rim. Airball.
He moved closer to the net.
But time and again, he missed. Of 22 shots POTUS took, he made two. (22 was general consensus of poolers)
At one point, POTUS handed a ball to a boy and asked for help. The boy made the layup.
“He couldn’t make one. I had to help him out,” said Kahron Campbell, 10, of Landover, MD.
Update:
Jay Carney, a spokesman for the President, later told reporters that Obama “doesn’t get to practice probably as much as he’d like to.”
“He’s a pretty good shot,” he added. “These are busy times.”
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