Obama welcomes the NBA champs to the White House

Obama welcomes the NBA champs to the White House

President Barack Obama praised LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers for their exploits in the NBA championship which came down to a game seven thriller.

The Cavs came back from a 3-1 deficit to win the championship against a Golden State Warriors team that set an NBA record for wins during the regular season.

“They start winning their first 10 games in the playoffs, setting record after record for three-point shooting. But obviously what this all comes down to is a team that, for the first time in NBA history, comes back from being down 3-1 in the finals — the first team in history to dig themselves out of a hole like that,” Obama said

During a sun-soaked ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House, Obama went on to praise Cavs star LeBron James who brought the championship back to his home state of Ohio.

“And when you see LeBron James, it is not just his power and his speed and his vertical. It is his unselfishness, it is his work ethic, it is his insistence on always making the right play, it is his determination — all of which makes him one of the great players of all time.

“And you saw it in those last three games, put up some of the most staggering statistics in Finals history. He did it the year before despite injuries, dragging his team along to make a very competitive series,” Obama remarked.

“You saw it when this kid from Akron broke down and fell to his knees when he realized that he had finally fulfilled a promise that he had made all those years ago and delivered that championship back to Northeast Ohio,” the outgoing US President said.

The team met the current president shortly after the first visit to the White House by President-Elect Donald Trump.

He defeated more experienced Republican rivals in the primary, before scoring his own unexpected victory in Tuesday’s presidential election.

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