Thunder Spends Time with Istanbul Kids
By Nick Gallo | THUNDER BASKETBALL WRITER
mailbag@thunder-nba.com
Oct. 4, 2013
“One Game One Love” read across Thunder players’ t-shirts on Friday morning and that credo said everything about the Thunder’s outreach efforts Turkey.
While the focus of this overseas trip to Istanbul and Manchester is on basketball and improving as the regular season approaches, there has also been time for the Thunder to give back. In the first of two events at the Garanti NBA Arena in Istanbul, Kevin Durant, Nick Collison, Reggie Jackson, Jeremy Lamb, Derek Fisher, Hasheem Thabeet, Andre Roberson and Diante Garrett taught the game of basketball to nearly 100 Special Olympians. Drills included shooting, dribbling and passing among other aerobic activities, giving everyone involved a chance to interact with one another.
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