When the United States needed a way in to begin talks with Kim Jong-un in 2012, a plan was proposed to then-President Barack Obama to have Steve Kerr play the North Korean leader in basketball.
Economist Marcus Noland suggested the idea to Obama, per Alex Schiffer of The Athletic, noting that Kim was a big Chicago Bulls fan.
"We have to work with what we’ve got," Noland told Obama. "If this guy is really as big of a Chicago Bulls fan as we hear, let’s work with that, because we have nothing else to go on.