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Pete Souza/The White House/Reuters The baller-in-chief picks the teams. If you're a prisoner hoping for leniency from the judge, research shows it'd be good for you to get a morning appointment. Later in the day, after making lots of decisions, jud...

Time has named the most influential 100 people in the world. The list includes Barack Obama, Mitt Romney and the like ... and one NBA player. It's not LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Kevin Durant, Dwight Howard or even union president Derek Fisher. Tha...

In GQ, Will Leitch hangs out with Derrick Rose. The star of the Chicago Bulls remembers a time when Barack Obama was no big deal: "I remember when he wasn't our president, when I was a kid, when he'd just be walking down the street, a state senator. ...

Jennifer Epstein of Politico: Obama rounded a day of travel that included a speech on energy policy and two fundraisers in the Miami area with a third fundraiser, at the home of Dallas Mavericks player Vince Carter. Carter welcomed the president to ...

Last week in Boston President Obama discussed Education Secretary Arne Duncan. "Some of you might have known that Arne used to play professional basketball in Australia," explains Obama. "He was on the Harvard basketball team -- was a star there. ...

At a fine arts event in Boston, President Obama thanks the city for "giving" Tom Thibodeau to the Bulls. "The Wire" gets a little too real ... the convicted murderer who played a murdering drug dealer in the show is arrested as part of a real drug ...

No, I have not seen the President say anything about preventing a lockout. But as it looks increasingly like there will be a deal to preserve the George W. Bush era tax cuts for the very richest Americans, it occurs to me that maybe, just maybe, t...

Matt Viser of the Boston Globe reports: Obama will name Russell as one of the recipients of a 2010 Medal of Freedom, according to a White House official. He joins a range of others, including former President George H. W. Bush, Chancellor Angela Mer...

Elizabeth Warren was recently selected by President Obama to set up a new federal consumer bureau. As it happens, this latest arrival in the Obama administration joins Obama himself, education secretary Arne Duncan and several others hoopsheads ru...

Official White House photo by Pete Souza On the White House basketball court, with the basketball president. Marv Albert sat down with the Commander-in-Chief for a conversation about basketball that will be part of TNT's broadcast of Game 4 of the ...

Magic Johnson, as quoted by Mike Trudell on Lakers.com, talking about meeting Barack Obama: It was really a special moment in time that I'm going to always remember that the President of the United States trash-talked Magic Johnson. And me restraini...

By Kevin Arnovitz The conversation between 3 Shades of Blue and Memphis Grizziles owner Michael Heisley continues. Heisley speaks about the trials of being a small-market team. Money quote: "Quite frankly free agents don't want to come to small m...

By Henry Abbott Brandon Jennings: "Oh yea forgot to till yall I was at the white house, chillin with Obama. He actually know who I am. That's crazy." Charlie Villanueva: "The antibiotics are kicking in, its helping me clear the congestion in my...

By Henry Abbott Michael Eisenberg writes on Seeking Alpha: President Obama's administration could learn a lot about salary caps from the NBA and NFL and in the process can help America turn on the innovation engine that America really needs to cl...

Cavalier fans have been getting along nicely with a bit of an us-against-the-world mentality. But lately there have been some serious blows to that underdog mentality, including the most powerful man on the planet saying (in March!) that your team is...

If you look at the standings, very few first-round matchups are easy to predict. Everything could change just about all over the NBA. One of the best guesses, however, is that the Cavaliers will be the first seed in the East, facing the eighth-placed...