John Kerry sets a pick on Dennis Rodman [View all]
Source: Politico
Secretary of State John Kerry - who’s 6’ 4” tall - could hold his own against former NBA great Dennis Rodman better than your average diplomat.
But Kerry says he would prefer that Rodman — who recently took a trip to North Korea and asked President Barack Obama to call that country’s dictator, Kim Jong Un — stay on the bench.
“You know what?” Kerry said in an interview with NBC’s Andrea Mitchell. “Dennis Rodman was a great basketball player, and as a diplomat, he was a great basketball player. And that’s where we’ll leave it.”
(PHOTOS: Dennis Rodman, Kim Jong Un in North Korea)
The flamboyant onetime NBA star - who has come under fire for the visit and calling Kim his “friend” - has defended his trip to the hermetic and impoverished nation by saying he was “not apologizing” for the dictator,
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