In other words, they’re going to see the President, keeping up with the tradition of a professional sports champion visiting the sitting Commander-in-Chief.

Courtesy of the Washington Post, we are able to provide viewers with a live look into the Heat’s meeting with President Barack Obama. It’s the Heat’s second visit to the White House, visiting George W. Bush following their 2006 championship win. Unlike then, however, the players and coaches may be able to run a pick-up game with the leader of the free world following photo-ops and the common tradition of presenting the President with a jersey bearing his name.

Knowing he’s a Bulls fan, the Heat may just treat him with the type of defense Chicago usually sees.

Or maybe the President will just be a spectator to the theatrics of Heat players such as LeBron James, who was the source of entertainment in an exhibition against Brazil leading up to the 2012 Olympics:

The video provided will begin coverage of the Heat visiting the White House at 1:40pm.

“It was uplifting,” he said. “It was something that you can tell your kids, you really can become anything now. You don’t have to become a basketball player. You can become President of the United States. It was definitely an unbelievable feeling. It was definitely one of those feelings that you say, ‘Wow.’”

I’m doubting when he said that he was thinking of himself so much as he was his sons and other young minority children. And while there might not be much likelihood LeBron will ever run for office (although it’s not unthinkable), he can already count himself, like the President, among those who the Right-Wing professional attack dogs have gone after. (more…)