Atlanta Hawks: Which Player Would Make The Best President?
By Tom Atkinson
Presidential fever has reached a great height in the US and worldwide and a significant among of worthy and serious debate has been unleashed. At SDS, we fancy something of a break and so we look at which member of the Atlanta Hawks would be the most adept in the Oval Office, judging by their basketball skills, of course.
The transition from President Barack Obama to President Donald Trump is one that has sparked a significant amount of passion and controversy. Rightly or wrongly, we’re seeing protests, tenuous press conferences and accusations of lying for every side.
Worry not, though. We are not here to talk about any of that, well not really. Anything presidential is hot news right now but we are going to offer you some light-hearted relief with a look at which member of the Atlanta Hawks roster would make the best president in some alternative universe where NBA players are presidential candidates.
How are we going to do this you ask? Well, obviously there is no way we can know with certainty how good anyone would be as a president.
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I don’t know how politically attuned any of the Hawks really are, or what ideas they would have, or how they would deal with the pressure of role as the leader of the free world.
We can guess, though. We can judge them by how they are on the hardwood. A guy who is a good leader on the floor, for the sake of this article, is a good leader in general. A player with severe flaws, such as a one-way play-style, might be an unbalance president in terms of his policies and general leadership of the nation. You get the idea.
Here, the NBA is an equivalent for the political scene and when I refer to politics or being a politician, you can replace that with NBA or NBA player. So, which Hawk would be the best president?