President Barack Obama on Sunday organized a dream team composed informal basketball stars of active and retired to a show to wounded soldiers.
LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Carmelo Anthony and other NBA stars joined the president in Washington.
The stars of this was accompanied by several legends and withdrawals, including Bill Russell and Magic Johnson. Was also Maya Moore, Connecticut Huskies women's team of college basketball.
The match took place against a group of "wounded warriors" _soldados combate_ injured in program participants and tutors from the White House, focused on young orphans of both sexes.
Was carried out at a gym in Fort McNair in Washington, a military installation located near the presidential residence.
The president was about two hours inside. Reporters assigned to cover Obama's activities were not allowed to enter the gym and had to wait in trucks outside.
When asked why he forbade the entrance of the media, the press secretary for the White House, Robert Gibbs, said the president "just wanted to play."
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