From: Subject: On the court, Obama escapes from politics - International Herald Tribune Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2007 10:37:01 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/related; type="text/html"; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0000_01C7A501.F4428920" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0000_01C7A501.F4428920 Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Location: http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/06/01/news/obama.php =EF=BB=BF On the court, Obama escapes = from politics - International Herald Tribune 3D"International3DAmericas
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On the court, Obama = escapes from=20 politics

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By=20 Jodi Kantor
Published: June 1, 2007
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Last Christmas, Senator Barack Obama flew to Hawaii to contemplate a=20 presidential bid in the peace of his childhood home. But there, on a = humid=20 playground near Waikiki Beach, he found himself being roughed up by some = of his=20 best friends. It was the third and final game of the group's annual=20 three-on-three basketball showdown, and with the score nearly tied, = things were=20 getting dirty.

"Every time he tried to score, I fouled him," Martin Nesbitt = recalled. "I=20 grabbed him, I'd hit his arm, I'd hold him."

Michael Ramos explained: "No blood, no foul."

Obama, like everyone else on the court, was laughing. And with a head = fake, a=20 bit of contact and a jumper that seemed out of his range, Obama sank the = shot=20 that won the game.

From John F. Kennedy's sailing to Bill Clinton's golf mulligans to = John=20 Kerry's windsurfing, sports has been used, correctly or incorrectly, as = a=20 personality decoder for presidents and presidential aspirants. So, = armchair=20 psychologists and fans of athletic metaphors, take note: Barack Obama is = a wily=20 player of pickup basketball, the version of the game with unspoken = rules, no=20 referee and lots of elbows. He has been playing since adolescence, on=20 cracked-asphalt playgrounds and at exclusive health clubs, developing a = quick=20 offensive style, a left-handed jump shot and relationships that have = extended=20 into the political arena.

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If one were somehow to play a highlight reel of the Illinois = Democrat's=20 on-court exploits, it would start in Hawaii, with a pudgy junior high = school=20 student in short shorts and high socks who had a Julius Erving poster = plastered=20 on his bedroom wall.

It might include the time he and several Harvard Law School = classmates played=20 inmates at a Massachusetts prison; the students were terrified to win or = lose,=20 because the convicts lining the court had bet on both outcomes. ("I got = two=20 packs on you!" they called out.)

Cut to the Obama's future wife asking her brother to take her new = boyfriend=20 out on the court to make sure he was not the type to hog the ball or = call=20 constant fouls. The reel might then show Obama playing with former NBA = stars in=20 a tournament fund-raiser for his Senate campaign, and at the family = gatherings=20 that always seem to end with everyone out by the hoop next to the = garage.

Basketball has little to do with Obama's presidential bid - in fact, = he has=20 trouble finding time to shoot baskets anymore. But until recently, it = was one of=20 the few constants in his life.

At first, it was a tutorial in race, a way for a kid with a white = mother, a=20 Kenyan father and a peripatetic childhood to establish the black = identity that=20 he longed for. In "Dreams From My Father," Obama described basketball as = a=20 comfort to a boy whose father was mostly absent, and who was one of only = a few=20 black youths at his school. "At least on the basketball court I could = find a=20 community of sorts," he wrote.

Craig Robinson, Obama's brother-in-law, said: "He didn't know who he = was=20 until he found basketball. It was the first time he really met black=20 people."

Now, Obama's friends say, basketball has been his escape from the = sport of=20 politics, but also a purer version of it, with no decorous speeches, no = careful=20 consensus - just unrestrained competition.

"He can be himself, it's a safe haven, he can let his competitive = juices flow=20 and tease his buddies," Nesbitt said. "It's just a relaxing respite from = the=20 every-moment and every-word scrutinization that he gets."

Before Rickey Green, a former NBA all-star, played with Obama in a = 2004=20 Senate campaign fund-raiser, "I didn't think he could play at all, to be = honest=20 with you," Green said. But "he's above average" for a pickup player, = Green said.=20 "He's got a nice little left-hand shot and some knowledge of the = game."

Robinson, now the coach of Brown University's men's team, said the=20 6-foot-2-inch senator is too skinny to be an imposing presence, but he = is fast,=20 with good wind even when he was a smoker. Obama is left-handed, and his=20 signature move is to fake right and veer left, surprising players used = to=20 guarding right-handed competitors.

On the court, Obama is confident, even a bit boastful.

"If he would hit a couple buckets, he would let you know about it," = said=20 Alexi Giannoulias, who played in the late 1990s with Obama at the East = Bank=20 Club, a luxurious spot in downtown Chicago.

He is gentleman enough to call fouls on himself: Steven Donziger, a = law=20 school classmate, has heard Obama mutter, "My bad," tossing the other = team the=20 ball.

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