WASHINGTON -– President Barack Obama strode into a room thick with humanity, a broad bank of cameras dominating the back and at least a score of photographers, mini-ladders in tow, ringing the side reserved for standing-room only observers.
This was not just any room, but the East Room of the White House -- a room with as much global history as classic elegance.
And on this cool, gray Thursday in the nation’s capital, the NBA champion Warriors were the guests of honor as the president extolled their virtues in the official ceremony that awaits every champion in American professional sports.