Andrew links to S.L. Price's Sports Illustrated account of playing basketball with Barack Obama. By the time Price took him on, though, Obama was already a presidential candidate. For real fake insights, what you want is Marshall Poe's recollections of playing against Obama in the late 1980s.
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