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Why Edwards Didn't Endorse Obama, Superdelegates and More | 211 comments (211 topical)
Don't know (none / 0) (#56)
by 1jpb on Sat Mar 29, 2008 at 08:42:31 PM EST
if he can or not.

But, BO has some kind of contest where the prize is for high school kids to play 3 on 3 with him.  So he better be ok, or it'll look bad to be destroyed by kids on the court.

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LOL, my 50 year old husband can beat kids... (none / 0) (#63)
by Maria Garcia on Sat Mar 29, 2008 at 08:46:43 PM EST
..cause he's 6'4 and all he has to do is stand under the basket. And you better believe he love doing it; just ask the nephews.  But Edwards has a basketball court on his property so I think he's probably pretty good and I don't he would have asked Obama to play if he didn't think he could beat him.

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Obama played on a team (none / 0) (#80)
by MKS on Sat Mar 29, 2008 at 09:14:26 PM EST
in high school that was very good, and plays regularly, and played regularly in pick-up games in the south side of Chicago to gain street cred....

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I'll vouch for that. (5.00 / 1) (#87)
by Donald from Hawaii on Sat Mar 29, 2008 at 09:23:14 PM EST
He played for Punahou School (albeit as a reserve), which won '79 Hawaii state championship. I played on that year's state runner-up, Moanalua High School. It wasn't close; we lost, 60-38.

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Obama led his college (none / 0) (#84)
by MKS on Sat Mar 29, 2008 at 09:17:00 PM EST
team in scoring in 1979.

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No, he didn't. (none / 0) (#89)
by Donald from Hawaii on Sat Mar 29, 2008 at 09:24:06 PM EST
See my post above.

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Check this out (none / 0) (#96)
by MKS on Sat Mar 29, 2008 at 09:31:42 PM EST
Here is a blurb comparing him to George Gervin....Finger rolls anyone?

Few outside of Los Angeles (and few from Los Angeles) are familiar with tiny Div III Occidental College, though it produced some memorable NFL players and coaches such as retired coach Jim Mora ("Playoffs?!) and qb/ex-Senator Jack Kemp, not to mention succesful Hollywood types. The school also may have produced a future US President: Barack Obama attended the school from 1978-1980 and was the school's leading scorer in basketball in 1979. Now, you did NOT know that. Obama was considered a "George Gervin type" by one ex-coach I spoke to, but I wonder why it gets no mention.

Further research is needed.  The years may be off.

How good was Obama at Punahou?

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TSN--Gold standard (none / 0) (#105)
by MKS on Sat Mar 29, 2008 at 09:40:07 PM EST
Here is what TSN says:

The eighth or ninth man on Punahou High School's 1979 state championship team in Hawaii, Obama started for Occidental College in the early '80s, played those Harvard pickup games and on the day of his swearing-in as a U.S. Senator said he felt like a first-round NBA draft choice finally getting onto a court to play.


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Why Edwards Didn't Endorse Obama, Superdelegates and More | 211 comments (211 topical)

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