Obama’s code-switching USA Basketball greetings evoke Key & Peele sketch

Ex-president offered cordial handshakes to white well-wishers, while some Black players were pulled in for hugs

Meeting the USA men's basketball team before their departure for the Olympic Games in Paris, Barack Obama appeared to recreate a classic comedy sketch in which he is portrayed greeting Black supporters effusively while offering cordial handshakes to white people.

In remarks at USA Basketball's 50th anniversary party in Las Vegas on Tuesday, the former president - the first and only Black person to hold that office - gestured to his famous love for the sport when he said: It is true I am the hooper-in-chief.