[Back In The Saddle]

Originally Posted by TimTaylor

Not this group. We're talking guys like Greg Smith, Nick Jones, Darnell Valentine, Shaler Halimon, Larry Steele, Bob Gross, Michael Harper, Dale Schlueter, Darrall Imhoff and others like them. These are old school NBA folks who went on to become contributing members of the community after leaving the NBA, and each and every one I've had the opportunity to meet is truly a class act. Over the years they volunteered hundreds of hours of their own time to participate in fund raising events that have raised millions of dollars for schools and other civic organizations.

These are good people, and don't deserve to be the target of snide comments.

That's not to say that some of the others haven't "contributed" hundreds of hours of community service as well