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But =93he knew how to get in the mix when he needed to,=94 Mr. = Giannoulias said.=20 =93There are always elbows, there=92s always a little bit of jersey = tucking and=20 tugging,=94 he said, continuing, =93Sometimes you gotta do what you = gotta do to=20 win.=94

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The men =97 and it is generally men =97 who play with Mr. Obama are = not, they=20 will have you know, the paunchy, lumbering type. =93Most of the guys who = played in=20 our little circle are former players in college or pros,=94 said Mr. = Robinson, who=20 is still Princeton=92s fourth-leading scorer of all time. =93They=92re = real high=20 level.=94

Mr. Obama cannot match their technical prowess, say those who played=20 regularly with him. But he is fiercely competitive, and makes up for his = deficits with collaboration and strategy. =93He=92s very good at finding = a way to=20 win when he=92s playing with people who are supposedly stronger,=94 Mr. = Nesbitt=20 said.

At country clubs across the land, politicians network and raise money = over=20 rounds of golf, a sport Mr. Obama also plays. But Chicago is a = basketball town,=20 and over the years, Mr. Obama=92s gymmates have become loyal allies and = generous=20 backers.

Mr. Nesbitt, an owner and executive at an airport parking company and = chairman of the Chicago Housing Authority=92s board of commissioners, = helped Mr.=20 Obama get to know Penny Pritzker, who is now his national finance=20 chairwoman.

Arne Duncan, a top Chicago public school official, is helping with = Mr.=20 Obama=92s education platform.

Mr. Giannoulias met Mr. Obama on the court, and thanks in part to his = backing, is now the Illinois state treasurer. Other regular gymmates = include the=20 president of the Cook County Board of Commissioners, the director of the = Illinois Department of Public Health and several investment bankers who = were=20 early and energetic fund-raisers.

Though some of these men could afford to build courts at their own = homes,=20 they pride themselves on the democratic nature of basketball, on showing = up at=20 South Side parks and playing with whoever is around. At the University=20 of Chicago court where he and Mr. Obama used to play, =93You might = have=20 someone from the street and a potential Nobel=20 Prize winner on the same team,=94 Mr. Duncan said. =93It=92s a great = equalizer.=94

It is a theme that runs throughout Mr. Obama=92s basketball career: a = desire to=20 be perceived as a regular guy despite great advantage and success. As a=20 teenager, he slipped away from his tony school to university courts = populated by=20 =93gym rats and has-beens=94 who taught him =93that respect came from = what you did and=20 not who your daddy was,=94 Mr. Obama wrote.

Later, the Harvard game against the prison inmates, said Hill Harper, = who=20 organized it, was intended to show them that =93we support you, we=92re = not removed=20 from everything going on.=94

But the easy friendships Mr. Obama once struck up on the court are a = thing of=20 the past. Lately, the rule in the family is =93No more new friends,=94 = Mr. Robinson=20 said. =93You don=92t know what people=92s real agendas are.=94

Now, for exercise, Mr. Obama pounds treadmills at hotel gyms. He = played a bit=20 last year, with American troops on military bases in Kuwait and = Djibouti, and=20 again at Christmas. His staff members laugh when asked if the senator = has had=20 any playing time since coming to Washington or hitting the campaign = trail. (=93I=20 dream of playing basketball,=94 Mr. Obama said in a television interview = on=20 Tuesday.) Before the first Democratic debate in South Carolina, Mr. = Robinson=20 reserved a court and a slot on Mr. Obama=92s schedule, hoping the = candidate could=20 blow off some steam before the big night. It did not happen.

The solution, Mr. Obama=92s friends say, is for him to win the = presidency, so=20 they can all play together at the White House.

=93I always tease him about that,=94 Mr. Nesbitt said. =93If you win, = you gotta=20 have a hoop.=94

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