LOL

that’s nice

I don’t want to sound like a total jerk, especially this time of year, but is it in the player contracts to do this kind of charity work? Do they do this on their own or is it just part of a P.R. campaign, sponsored by the Nets and the players various endorsement companies? In other words, are they getting compensated?

This thread is really sad.

""The NBA, Where Caring Happens" … to always be recorded on camera.

“You guys sure make a nice photo-op”.

yeah, i wonder how many ex-professional athletes (washed up or old) voluntarily get involved in community service and charity… you don’t hear about it, huh?

I just don’t like people showing me how generous they are, especially if it’s part of their job. It’s not honest.

@ Mike – Why do you feel that way?

@Mike
You have gone from asking questions to making a statement that this is part of their job. Did someone answer your question or are just speculating?

I feel very lucky I have never become a cynical Nets fan in spite of everything.

Yes, it is part of their contracts and part of their jobs. However, some athletes go beyond what they are contractually obligated to and some even do things behind the scenes that dont get reported or they just dont want reported. The best way to look at it is even if they are obligated to, at least the people they are helping are benefitting regardless. If they didnt do these things, it would hurt the people they help.

Its really sad that you are all in such bad spirits that you brush off a feel good article like this one as something they have to do. Who cares if they’re obligated to do charity work? That doesn’t make it any less of a good thing!

I love those “NBA Cares” spots with people like Dwight and Paul and Baron. I would trust those guys with my kid. They are great people.

How about showing some guts and doing an “NBA Cares” with Sheed and Artest?

It is NOT part of their contracts. They have to deliver a certain number of personal appearances to the team…that’s all that’s part of their contracts.

The NBA contract does not require them to set up foundations, as Harris, Hayes and Simmons have. The NBA contract does not require Yi to visit earthquake zones in China and sponsor schools. The NBA contract does not require Alston to counsel kids in his Queens neighborhood. The NBA contract did not require Carter to give $8 million to set up a drug treatment center or $2.5 million to improve his local high school. Nor did it require Jefferson to give $3 million to his alma mater. It didn’t require Kidd to make multiple trips to New Orleans and Houston after Katrina.

These guys, as the article notes, came from bad situations and they remember that. Growing up poor is no fun. Being cynical after you’ve grown up is less.

Now I feel like a total jerk. I’m sorry. Have a happy Holiday and hopefully we can steal a win tonight. Lets go Nets.

Mike: That was pretty big of you.
These things are really great and important, but are drops in a lake.
Oh well.

Maybe we finally win one on the court?

GO NETS!

@me
Those two things are not mutually exclusive.

Kiki/Rod have change 14 of 15 players in two years on this team.
What they did was made moves through trades, draft and brought in high character guys. Besides talent, high character guys makes the job of building a team very easy for the future.
They don’t need a one and done palyer in the draft next year. Then you have to bring him along. You only do that when the team is a veteran squad and you need that one last
piece.

GO BROOKLYN NETS! GO BROOKLYN NETS! GO BROOKLYN NETS!

I always thought I had heard it was part of their contracts to do some form of charitable work. I guess always seeing them on camera using it for a media moment, reinforced the thought. Oh well, like I said the important part is that they’re doing it.

So what if it was in their contract that they had to do charitable work?

The stuff these guys do, as noted, is far beyond doing some “charitable work”.

As a Mets fan, I don’t abandon my team no matter how bad they do and the same goes for the Nets. I know that they are not going to lose all 82 games, which is pretty much impossible. If they can end that streak before losing more than the Clippers did when they set the record, then it’s good. I know one thing for sure is that they won’t win less than 9 games, which is what the 76ers set back in 1973 durring those four years of not making the playoffs after making it in their first 21 seasons as an NBA franchise*.

• They were the Syracuse Nationals from 1949 to 1963.

What an amazing coincidence that the Nets happened to have video of their players doing “charity” for last night’s half-time.

Next year they can put together a video of themselves charitably relieving people of their burdensome property to build an arena.