Community Updates
NBPA Annual Community Contribution All-Star Award
Each year, the National Basketball Players Association recognizes the outstanding community achievements of a select few. This year’s honorees are...
NBPA Outreach: Helping Haiti Heal
In an urgent response to the devastating earthquake that shook Haiti last month, the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) joined with its counterparts from the NFLPA, MLBPA and NHLPA to form “One Team 4 Haiti.”
Duhon Doing His Part For Haiti
The sound of support for Haiti reverberated many miles from New York City’s Times Square last month. Representing the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA), New York Knicks point guard Chris Duhon joined UNICEF Executives to ring the closing bell at the NASDAQ...
NBPA Kicks Off Season of Giving in The Big Apple
The holidays arrived early for 1,000 families in New York and New Jersey in November, as the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA), in partnership with the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, kicked off its nationwide holiday feast relief....
NBPA & Its Players Lend A Holiday Helping Hand In Nation’s Capital
The holiday season kicked off on a high note for 10,000 underprivileged Washington, D.C. families this past December. Receiving food, personal care items, toys, coats, turkeys and more, the families...
Ron Artest: Africa's Angel
NAIROBI, Kenya -- When former NBA star Kermit Washington recently called Houston Rocket Ron Artest from a third-world Nairobi, Kenya, it was not to talk hoops.