Obama, Fan Trash Talk at NBA Game

WASHINGTON - President Obama has been taking some heat after he was photographed this weekend drinking a beer at a Chicago Bulls-Washington Wizards game in D.C. But at the game, he was also getting an earful for just being a Bulls fan.

Miles Rawls, a Wizards fan and the commissioner of a local basketball league in the D.C. area, sat near the president that night and figured he would have some fun needling him.

In an interview with the Washington Post's Dan Steinberg , Rawls describes the playful back and forth. "I just had to see how he was gonna take it," Rawls said. "Once I knew he was a big trash talker, too, about them Bulls, that means the gloves came off."

"We were up by 15," Rawls recalled. "I told [Obama], 'You can tell them to warm up the limo, Sir, because this is a wrap here.'"

When the Bulls started staging a comeback, Rawls said Obama turned to him and said, "Now I think you need to sit down."

"When Tyrus Thomas dunked on somebody, [Obama] turned around, was talking smack. Then JaVale McGee had that alley-oop, and he gave me the high five. We was just supporting each others' team, having a good time," Rawls said.

See photos of Obama at the game