But the hosts, Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic, got the former president to talk about that time he “almost” dunked a basketball in a church league game.
“I was in a church league. I wasn’t very good, I was too heavy. But I would run pretty well in short distances,” Clinton said. “One night I was the leading scorer on our team. I scored 16 points in a church league game, never have before or since.”
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He continued: “We were both on this par 5 hole in 2 [shots] and I was only eight feet away from an eagle. I had never had an eagle on a par 5 hole. Ever. And I literally stubbed the putt. It was the worst put you could have imagined. Jack Nicholas looked at me and said, ‘You didn’t think you were worthy of an eagle, did you?’ I said, ‘I guess not.’ He smiled and he said, ‘You need to get over that.’ I’ll never forget that for as long as I live.”
