Stick to the day job: Barack Obama left red-faced after missing 17 consecutive shots

The US president isn’t much of a basketball player going on this evidence.

IF US PRESIDENT Barack Obama had hoped to impress the kids at the Washington school he visited yesterday, he failed miserably.

What began as a laugh and joke turned into a desperate mission to score and, after changing balls and moving in for a lay-up, he eventually got that elusive basket… 18 shots later.

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(h/t: World of Sport)

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