In a Shaq Pro Quo, Gore Votes for Lakers
The NBA finals are payback time for Al Gore.
Unless a home team is playing, politicians rarely choose sides in a sporting contest. But the vice president, campaigning Thursday near Staples Center, where the Lakers play Game 2 tonight against the Indiana Pacers, Gore made a definitive choice: “The Lakers!”
“Shaq endorsed me at a key moment in the campaign,” he explained to a local TV station.
Shaquille O’Neal sent one of his size-22 shoes to a Gore fund-raiser last September as a show of support when Gore was battling former NBA player Bill Bradley for the Democratic presidential nomination.
So what does Gore say to Pacer fans, who call a key electoral battleground state home? “I try to avoid the subject.”
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