{"id":606080,"date":"2026-02-16T09:53:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T09:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/606080\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T09:53:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T09:53:25","slug":"barack-obama-accidentally-steals-the-show-at-nba-all-star-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/606080\/","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama Accidentally Steals The Show At NBA All-Star Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/topic\/nba\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"NBA\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"69928ee6e4b046a6f2deabdc\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"\/topic\/nba\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"feed\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NBA<\/a>\u2019s biggest names faced off in Sunday\u2019s All-Star Game, but one key moment featured someone who\u2019s never played in the league: former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/news\/topic\/barack-obama\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"Barack Obama\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"69928ee6e4b046a6f2deabdc\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"\/news\/topic\/barack-obama\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"feed\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Barack Obama<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With former first lady <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/news\/topic\/michelle-obama\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"Michelle Obama\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"69928ee6e4b046a6f2deabdc\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"\/news\/topic\/michelle-obama\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"feed\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Michelle Obama<\/a> next to him in their courtside seats, Obama snagged a loose ball as it headed into the crowd:<\/p>\n<p>Obama, a longtime fan of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/topic\/chicago-bulls\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"Chicago Bulls\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"69928ee6e4b046a6f2deabdc\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"\/topic\/chicago-bulls\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"feed\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chicago Bulls<\/a>, also snuck in a mischievous crack at Hall of Famer Reggie Miller, who played for the rival Indiana Pacers. <\/p>\n<p>During an on-court interview between games in Sunday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=38395X987171&amp;xs=1&amp;xcust=69928ee6e4b046a6f2deabdc&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nba.com%2Fnews%2F2026-nba-all-star-game-new-format\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"round-robin tournament\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"69928ee6e4b046a6f2deabdc\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=38395X987171&amp;xs=1&amp;xcust=69928ee6e4b046a6f2deabdc&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nba.com%2Fnews%2F2026-nba-all-star-game-new-format\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">round-robin tournament<\/a>, Miller asked the former president if he had a \u201cfavorite moment\u201d from the 1990s, when Michael Jordan led the Bulls to six championships. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always enjoyed watching us beat Indiana,\u201d Obama said, and the two traded playful verbal jabs about some playoff history: <\/p>\n<p>To cap it off, the Obamas were featured on the video display at the Intuit Dome \u2015 and fans seemed to love it. <\/p>\n<p>Reports from the scene indicate they were met with a warm <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/joeylinn_\/status\/2023160570304962627\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"ovation from the crowd\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"69928ee6e4b046a6f2deabdc\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/joeylinn_\/status\/2023160570304962627\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"5\" rel=\"nofollow\">ovation from the crowd<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-sized__img landscape\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" alt=\"LOS ANGELES, CA - FEB 15: Former US President Barack Obama catches the ball during NBA All Star 2026 game between USA Stars and World team at Intuit Dome, Inglewood, Los Angeles, California, United States on February 15, 2026. (Photo by Tayfun Coskun\/Anadolu via Getty Images)\" width=\"720\" height=\"443\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/699296cc15000038b4bb8ba5.jpeg\" \/>LOS ANGELES, CA &#8211; FEB 15: Former US President Barack Obama catches the ball during NBA All Star 2026 game between USA Stars and World team at Intuit Dome, Inglewood, Los Angeles, California, United States on February 15, 2026. (Photo by Tayfun Coskun\/Anadolu via Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some of the NBA\u2019s biggest names faced off in Sunday\u2019s All-Star Game, but one key moment featured someone&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17229,7,935,17230,6,1279],"class_list":{"0":"post-606080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-barack-obama","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-michael-jordan","11":"tag-michelle-obama","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-reggie-miller"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116079703720431844","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606080","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=606080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}