WASHINGTON — Linsanity has now reached the Oval Office.
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters Wednesday that President Obama is an “avid sports fan” who has been closely following the rags-to-riches story of Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin.
Lin was literally living on his brother’s couch as an unknown basketball player from Harvard, but over the past 10 days he has suddenly taken the sports world by storm, leading the struggling Knicks to six consecutive victories.
Carney made his comments aboard Air Force One as the President was heading to Milwaukee for a speech on the economy. He noted that Obama, a Chicago Bulls fan and known basketball enthusiast, was raving about Lin’s dramatic 27-point performance Tuesday night, which including a last-second 3-pointer to beat the Toronto Raptors.
“We were speaking about it on Marine One,” Carney said of the President’s trip aboard his helicopter from the White House to Andrews Air Force Base for the flight to Wisconsin.”He is very impressed.”
While Carney spent most of his off-camera briefing with reporters talking about the President staying up to date on the economy and various global hotspots like Iran and Syria, he added Obama is also “fully up to speed” on what the sports media has dubbed Linsanity.
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