Big Ticket…Big Heart
June 2, 2008 – 7:05 am
In his first season with the Celtics Kevin Garnett has lead his team to the NBA Finals. And while winning a championship may put him even higher up on the list of all-time greats on the court, he is already a legend for his work off of it.
Throughout his NBA career Garnett has made a commited effort to help others. In his early years in Minnesota he built state of the art technology centers in several local high schools. In 2005 he won the J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award for his help with Hurricaine Katrina relief efforts, including a donation of over $1.2 million toward helping rebuild homes in devistated areas. Most recently Garnett was awarded the Community Assist Award for his Big Ticket Challenge where he helped improve the academic performance of thousands of Boston area students by rewarding them with personal letters of encouragement, tickets to Celts games, and one-on-one meet and greets.
In addition to these more well-known achievements, Garnett has privately helped put several kids through school, provided funds to several single-parents for mortgages, rent, or other finanical needs, and even bought suits, vacations and other gifts for his teammates and their families. The Big Ticket has consistently shown what it means to have a “big heart”, so now we are rooting for him to get a “big ring”…Good luck KG!
-JH
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