{"id":605769,"date":"2026-02-16T05:18:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T05:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/605769\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T05:18:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T05:18:38","slug":"barack-obama-roasts-reggie-miller-during-nba-all-star-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/605769\/","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama roasts Reggie Miller during NBA All-Star Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Barack Obama appeared on NBC during the 2026 NBA All-Star Game broadcast on Sunday for an interview with Reggie Miller at the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, CA. The interview went for roughly four minutes during a break in the action of <a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/nbc\/all-star-game-monumental-milestone-return-nba.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the new round-robin All-Star game format<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Obama, a Chicago Bulls fan, roasted the Indiana Pacers legend in a funny moment during the interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to shift to Chicago,\u201d Miller, an NBA on NBC color commentator, said. \u201cYou mentioned the \u201990s. Your time there, and that run by Michael Jordan and Chicago. Do you have a favorite moment during that time in Chicago during the \u201990s?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always enjoyed watching us beat Indiana,\u201d Obama quipped.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Reggie Miller: \u201cDo you have a favorite moment during that time in Chicago during the \u201990s?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barack Obama: \u201cI always enjoyed watching us beat Indiana.\u201d \ud83c\udfc0\ud83d\udd25\ud83c\udf99\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NBA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#NBA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NBC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#NBC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rCzmUBNU90\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/rCzmUBNU90<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/awfulannouncing\/status\/2023173370871951469?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 15, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh my goodness,\u201d Miller responded. \u201cWhy do you do that to me? I knew you were going to say that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough I will say that nobody terrified me more than Reggie Miller with a possible three-point shot at the end of a game,\u201d Obama said. \u201cYou did push off Michael on that one play, though. Everybody knows it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, come on, Mr. President,\u201d Miller said. \u201cDid he push off in the Utah series? No, right? They didn\u2019t call it, right?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo,\u201d Obama responded.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>You can see the full Obama interview with Miller here:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Former President Barack Obama joins Reggie Miller to talk basketball, his Chicago memories and much more. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DfjARetPd4\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/DfjARetPd4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA on NBC and Peacock (@NBAonNBC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBAonNBC\/status\/2023175626652373264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 15, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former President Barack Obama appeared on NBC during the 2026 NBA All-Star Game broadcast on Sunday for an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3774],"tags":[2645,17229,7,329,113,126,3866,935,6,697,114,1279],"class_list":{"0":"post-605769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indiana-pacers","8":"tag-2026-nba-all-star-game","9":"tag-barack-obama","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-chicago-bulls","12":"tag-indiana","13":"tag-indiana-pacers","14":"tag-indianapacers","15":"tag-michael-jordan","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-nba-on-nbc","18":"tag-pacers","19":"tag-reggie-miller"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116078621690053922","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}