Lucas: The First Time
Posted Nov 12, 2011
P.J. Hairston, who has worked for most of the last four years--and maybe more--to get to this point in his basketball career, spent most of his pregame moments wondering what, exactly, he might say to President Barack Obama when the leader of the free world entered the Carolina locker room before Friday night's tipoff against Michigan State. "Before he even came on board the ship, I was thinking about it," Hairston said.
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