Obama and his friends were so competitive during their White House basketball games, he wound up in stitches
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- President Barack Obama always played a basketball match on election days.
- The games got pretty competitive, not least because Obama would trash talk his opponents after winning.
- During one game, an adversary accidentally elbowed Obama in the face and he required 12 stitches.
- "The only guy who ever clocked the president and didn’t get arrested," Obama joked at a tech conference in Las Vegas.
President Barack Obama was a serious basketball player in high school and always felt that he could have landed on a division one team. Instead, he studied political science, went to Harvard, and became president.
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