The Portland Trail Blazers recently hosted 4,000 guests at the team’s annual Harvest Dinner. The dinner, which served homeless and critically low-income individulas and families, was executed entirely through volunteer efforts of Blazers staff, players, coaches, community partners, local media members and corporate partners (Portland Trail Blazers).
L.A. Story: In California, Janis Carr wrote that Lakers players Derek Fisher, Andrew Bynum, Luke Walton, Sasha Vujacic and Pau Gasol joined the NBA Hall of Famer Clyde Drexler last week to open the Lakers Reading and Learning Center at the Boys and Girls Club of East Los Angeles. Carr noted that “a new media center, which included new computers and a game room, was also unveiled.”
This was the 12th center the Lakers have sponsored in partnership with the NBA and Toyota. Toyota Project Rebound is a community initiative established by the NBA and Toyota. The program includes 15 hands-on community service projects sponsored by NBA and WNBA teams, and will include court refurbishments, the creation of Learn & Play Centers, and other Legacy Projects providing youth safe places to live, learn or play (Orange County Register, 10/16).
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