Obama offered a basketball team for his birthday dream

Kobe Bryant, LeBron James and even the veteran Earvin "Magic" Johnson: President of the United States Barack Obama has played basketball Sunday with a dream team, meet friends before the White House to celebrate his birthday with some days late.

Obama, who had already celebrated his 49th birthday Wednesday with friends in his former political stronghold of Chicago (Illinois, North), arrived Sunday afternoon in a convoy in a gym with a military complex near Washington, to practice his favorite sport for half past two.

According to the press service of the White House, Obama has played the ball to the winger including LeBron James, the best player (MVP) of the last two NBA seasons, including the transfer of the Miami Heat Cleveland Cavaliers made sensation in July.

Other players in attendance included the legendary Earvin 'Magic' Johnson, 50, triple and quintuple champion MVP with the Lakers in Los Angeles, the current top scorer in the NBA Carmelo Anthony (Denver Nuggets), or the current star Lakers, Kobe Bryant, also five-time NBA champion. The latter has not played, according to the White House.

In total, no fewer than 16 players or former players, professional or academic, had responded to this, including Maya Moore, double champion with the Huskies from the University of Connecticut.

After this exercise, Mr. Obama, some players but also personal friends would be attending a barbecue on the lawn south of the White House.

A few days after the announcement of a clogged oil wells submarine has caused a major oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the presidency said that the president and his guests were particularly enjoy seafood from the region.

Obama celebrated his birthday Wednesday with no immediate family, his wife Michelle and their youngest daughter Sasha has spent much of the week private holiday in Spain. The couple's eldest daughter, Malia, was for its summer camp.