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Good Job NVE...
Spurs guard Van Exel provides some holiday cheer
W. Scott Bailey
http://sanantonio.bizjournals.com/sa...21/daily5.html
San Antonio Spurs guard Nick Van Exel came to San Antonio with some baggage, having been suspended for some games in the past resulting from an altercation with an NBA referee.
Now Van Exel is contributing to the team concept on the court in a Spurs uniform, and providing a helping hand to some of San Antonio's less fortunate away from SBC Center.
On Sunday, Van Exel delivered a tractor trailer full of turkeys to the San Antonio Food Bank and other area nonprofits, including the Baptist Children's Home and Antioch Missionary Baptist Church.
Spurs officials say Van Exel came up with the idea on his own and the team worked with San Antonio-based H-E-B Grocery Stores to facilitate the effort.
"This is indicative of the real kind of person Nick is," Spurs spokesman Cliff Puchalski says. "He's been painted with a bad brush. But he did this on his own. He came to us with the idea because it was something he really wanted to do."
Puchalski says Van Exel purchased 300 of the holiday birds and H-E-B provided the rest.
Area charities like the Food Bank have had their supplies depleted after providing assistance to tens of thousands of evacuees from the Gulf South and parts of the Texas Gulf Coast who found shelter in San Antonio after hurricanes Katrina and Rita hit.
Puchalski says Van Exel, who began his collegiate basketball career at Trinity Valley Community College in Texas, said he wanted to find a way to help.
Good Job NVE...
great job NVE
Hes a Spur? What do you expect?
OH yeah, Pop doesn't sign good guys, the Spurs have got lucky....
oh SURE he's a good guy. him and KG are on the same boat, no?
It seems like Nick is really happy to be a Spur. Good for him.
oh SURE he's a good guy. him and KG are on the same boat, no?
Seeing as Van Exel came to these people and not have it released through the media till this guy TOLD them? Id say no.
Well, I didn't see anything about NVE calling Oprah to get this set up, he worked with the Spurs organization. KG KNEW that he would get a lot of face time with his call to Oprah, it was a no-brainer for him. What he did was a good thing, he just got the max amount of exposure for his good deed.
That said, if the NBA playeers want to try to out do each other in helping those in need, I am all for it. Oprah or no Oprah.
I was so hoping to see NVE all dressed up as Santa
Nicky would bether serve as an elf:
That's too damn funny.Nicky would bether serve as an elf:
I smell a sequel to Blazing Saddles somewhere in this idea.
Nice job, St. Nick.
Well, now that I know NVE was suspended for an altercation with an NBA ref, I'm reminded more than ever how much he looks like a certain controversial, yet funny former NBA player; Charles Barkley.
Complete PR move.
keep it up yr after yr NVE!
advance happy 34th birthday on the 27th.
SPUR OF THE MOMENT
Nick Van Exel helps HEB deliver 400 turkeys to local San Antonio charities.
Last edited by milkyway21; 11-23-2005 at 03:33 AM.
Thank you, Van Exel...
Nick does this kind of stuff all the time.
He's done the "turkey drop" in just about every city he's been involved with. He doesn't usually just buy the goods. He usually helps to deliver them, too.
He's also done some things at Christmas season. When he was with the Blazers, Nick went through a local church and got wish lists from the children, bought the things they wanted and personally delivered them. He also threw a surprise Christmas party for the kids and families.
He's got a good heart for helping underprivileged people.
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