The Chicago Bulls became the first professional sports franchise welcomed to the White House by President Barack Obama on Thursday.
A trip to the White House is usually reserved for the team that wins the championship game of its respective sport. But Obama, a former senator of Illinois, is a lifelong Bulls fan.
The Bulls are in town to face the Washington Wizards on Friday.
Bulls rookie point guard Derrick Rose was in awe of the opportunity to meet the President.
"It was crazy just being here," the No. 1 pick of June's draft told NBA.com.
"I've never had the chance to be at the White House, but the President gave us the opportunity to come, so that's what we did. I was nervous just to stand next to him, but then for someone like him to even know my name was just amazing."
Rose said he was impressed with Obama's knowledge of the team.
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Interesting thought on TrueHoop -
A lot of great players defy their positions: Is Tim Duncan a forward or a center? What is LeBron James? (Power wing? Is that a position?) But if you had to pick the prototypes for the five positions, whom would you pick? On HoopsWorld, Mike Moreau makes the case for Bob Cousy, Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Karl Malone, and Wilt Chamberlain as the NBA's five prototypical position players. UPDATE: A conversation I just had with Rob Mahoney of The Two Man Game. Rob's in bold: "What do you think about MJ as the prototypical shooting guard? Yeah, weird to me. Prototypical shooting God, perhaps. But who's like him? No one at all. I guess every other shooting guard ever is doing it wrong."
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