Reflections On Basketballing Obama

Recently on my way to play basketball at the basketball courts at Hamilton Fish Park, I passed by one of the biggest graffiti banners in the city celebrating Barack Obama's election victory—on Avenue C in the East Village. Obama has made his basketball prowess known at various campaign stops along the way.  Apparently he prefers to play basketball to stay in shape rather than work out in the gym, jog, or ride bicycles as other presidents have done.

As a huge basketball fan who supports the New York Knicks, it strikes me as more than coincidental that the team has for many years been down on its luck, caught up in on-court and off-court squabbles, failed policies, and personnel changes, only to completely undergo a regime change at the top in an attempt to give the Knicks a new glimmer of hope in the coming years. That's basically what's been happening with the Bush administration in Washington over the same period of time and what's happened with the recent election. So now there's a new coach in in Madison Square Garden and a new coach in the White House Garder: Coach Obama.

Here's to hoping that with new leadership, new forms of team play, defense, hard work, and commitment to a goal-oriented approach, new team Obama and new team D'Antoni will both lead us out of our recessionary basketball blues—and sooner rather than later.  

Tags:   2008 election, barack obama, basketball, dantoni, graffiti, new york knicks

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Posted on 11/17/2008 ( Permanent Link )
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