Saturday, September 06, 2008

From Carrying Battier's Jock to Carrying Obama's Breath Mints

Former Duke basketball player Reggie Love, like many other Dukies never found much success in pro basketball.
But lately Love is getting more attention for his play on the court than he ever did while at Duke.
Love is now Barack Obama's "body man" or personal assistant, and his most public of chores is teaming up with Obama during pickup games, so Obama can rack up the assists.
Love also has a lot of other chores, all of which would seem menial, were he not doing them for the future President of the United States.
He makes sure Obama doesn't leave anything in his hotel room. During speeches he holds Obama's jacket, and brings him water.
But mostly Love is just there to run interference with crazed fans and to make sure the candidate gets to where he needs to be on time.

Reggie Love rides with Barack Obama

In the time between when I conceived this story and actually got around to writing, E-60 did a good, 12-minute long piece on Love and Obama.
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2 comments:

  1. Anonymous9:44 PM

    screw both those idiots

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  2. Anonymous10:17 AM

    I love both of those guys, thanks for highlighting them. When I was at Duke Reggie passed out drunk at a UNC party and there are some hilarious photos of Carolina students posing with the dormant big guy.

    I think your comment re: Dukies not finding much success in the NBA is about 10 years outdated. If you were to list current NBA players by college, I think Duke would have among the most of any school. And, they have alot of great players - think Boozer, Brand, Battier, Deng and Dunleavy. And not coincidentally, those are just the BD's.

    -BD

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