Up Front
THROWBACK: Check out that above-ground ball returns, and the manual scoring station to the left, at the Harry S. Truman Bowling Alley as it appeared in 1948.
EVERYTHING BOWLING, ALL THE TIME
THE WASHINGTON MAGIC?The 2014-15 Washington Wizards hoped a bowling excursion might bring their team the same magic it brought the Cleveland Cavaliers in January.
WHITE HOUSE WIZARDRY
NBA’S WASHINGTON WIZARDS HIT THE LANES AT THE WHITE HOUSE
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March issue of Bowlers Journal International, bowling bailed the National Basketball Association’s Cleveland Cavaliers out of a downer of a start to their NBA season.
The addition of the game’s greatest
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player, LeBron James, and other marquee names in the offseason last summer brought high hopes to the team and its franchise. But the Cavs got off to a floundering start and found themselves embroiled in a six-game losing streak in January. Then their coach, David Blatt, surprised them with a jaunt to a bowling center in Los Angeles rather than the brutal practice session they
anticipated prior to a game against the L.A. Lakers. Forward Kevin Love told the Cleveland Plain Dealer it was “a surprise for most guys” and that “It just helped so much. We needed a break from it all.” Apparently so. The team promptly tore off a 12-game winning streak. On March 11, the struggling
Washington Wizards figured that trying to bum a bit of that magic off of the Cavs might be worth a shot. And a shot is exactly what Wizards point guard, John Wall, executed on the Harry S. Truman Bowling Alley lanes — built as a birthday gift to President Truman in 1947 and relocated in 1955 to the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House grounds — during
the Wizards’ visit to the White House on an off–day. In an appearance on the Dan Patrick
Show days later, Wall revealed that the Harry S. Truman Bowling Alley is most definitely a B.Y.O.B. zone. “Do they serve beer at the bowling alley there, at the White House?” Patrick asked. “No way. They don’t serve nothing!”
Wall said. “We brought our own snacks.”
Snacks were not the only thing Wall
brought to the White House lanes; he also appears to have brought some game. Watch Wall convert the 1-3-5- 6-10 with the aplomb of a pro, then stage what you might call an “on-lane celebration.”
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