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New Respect for Otto Porter
« on: October 08, 2013, 01:23:42 PM »

Offline green147

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I got a new respect for Otto Porter. I don't know of many kids his age that would do this, much less NBA players.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/otto-porters-class-act/2013/10/08/9630b5fc-2e8c-11e3-9ddd-bdd3022f66ee_story.html

Re: New Respect for Otto Porter
« Reply #1 on: October 08, 2013, 01:40:47 PM »

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I got a new respect for Otto Porter. I don't know of many kids his age that would do this, much less NBA players.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/otto-porters-class-act/2013/10/08/9630b5fc-2e8c-11e3-9ddd-bdd3022f66ee_story.html

Nice find.  That's very cool.  They are both lucky that Terrence Jones wasn't around. 
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Re: New Respect for Otto Porter
« Reply #2 on: October 08, 2013, 01:48:33 PM »

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I think my favorite part of that is that Porter sat down next to the man and had a conversation. 


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Re: New Respect for Otto Porter
« Reply #3 on: October 08, 2013, 02:27:30 PM »

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I got a new respect for Otto Porter. I don't know of many kids his age that would do this, much less NBA players.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/otto-porters-class-act/2013/10/08/9630b5fc-2e8c-11e3-9ddd-bdd3022f66ee_story.html

I'm usually more of a pessimist, especially regarding these type of things, but with your line "I don't know of many kids his age that would do this, much less NBA players.",  I actually take a glass is half full view.

I like to think most NBA players do this kind of thing, at least on some level.  We only know about this specific Otto Porter thing because somebody wrote in to a major paper about it.  Hey, just a couple of months ago JaVale McGee did something similar.   For every situation like this we hear about, I like to think there are probably 100 more that we never hear about.

A lot of these guys might act like jerks or idiots at other times, but I think a lot of them actually step up to the plate when it comes to at least doing something for kids/homeless/less fortunate.  If we could get data on millionaires, broken out by athletes vs more typical white collar millionaires, I think the athletes giving, based on frequency and total given (as a % of earnings) would blow non-entertainers giving out the water.

Good for Otto Porter, Jr. though.

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