This is a YouTube video titled "How Barack Obama Coached His Daughter's Basketball Team" featuring a conversation between Michelle Obama and Barack Obama. They share a personal and humorous story about Barack Obama coaching their daughter Sasha's fourth grade basketball team, the Vipers, during his White House years, including anecdotes about the involvement of family, friends, and security details.
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One of the best stories about my husband is that he became a coach during his White House years. He coached Sasha's fourth grade basketball league, the Vipers. So he didn't start out as the coach, but we signed her up for rec basketball. And it's at some local YMCA in Chevy Chase. And of course we're going to the games because It's basketball.
Of course, you have to go.
And it's my baby, the one, he's got one that maybe will do it, right? So we're all going to the games. And also on the team was Maisie Biden, Joe Biden, the then vice president's granddaughter, who the Biden girls and our girls grew up together, friends. So imagine that rec league on any given Sunday, because we all went, right? President, the vice president, Secret Service, everyone, yeah.
Two details.
No, like eight details, because all the folks had They got their own bodyguards also. Ambulance, helicopters, SWAT people all over the gym, right? It's like a little middle school gym.
Like, yeah, two raptors, like nothing.
That's right. And of course, they're all still yet. Basketball, amazing. And I'm just like, Joe, you gotta like, not yell. You know, Barack, sit down, sit down. But it was a parent coach league, and the two parents of the Vipers weren't professional coaches, and they really didn't know basketball. and it was very evident by game number two as Barack would just start sliding down to the coaches bench and to say, you know, have her block that one and get them to tie their shoes. So he was sort of side coaching and at the time his aid was Reggie Love. Reggie Love was a Division One-- Cute.
Guy, is that the guy?
Yeah. That was his body guy. So it's he and Reggie and they come out of the games really critiquing what wasn't going right. They weren't running plays. There were no practices. So they started making these side, giving side advice to these two parent coaches.
Oh my gosh.
So how do you, you know, well, what do you do with that?
With the president giving you some coaching advice. Eventually, you do a little whistle as a coach.
You know, he starts offering to run practice for the Vipers. So they come to like one of the department, one of the downtown gyms in the Department of Agriculture or the Interior or whatever. So they take over a gym. every week, they're coaching the Vipers. They teach them two plays. One was box and one was something else. Oh, not the triangle offense.
You know, not the triangle offense.
Because these little girls weren't even tying their shoes. They didn't know the basics.
Just tuck your shirt in.
So eventually, Barack's on the bench with Reggie, with the parents, and they're running plays. That's incredible. Long and short of it is the.
