These guys enjoy a good deal of pampering as it is, and thus President Obama apparently felt no remorse in enlisting Kobe Bryant and his fellow NBA champs from the Los Angeles Lakers to spend a day serving the D.C. community rather than resting on their nest of laurels. Obama announced his plans for the visiting b-ballers at a news conference Monday at the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Washington. –KA

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