Talking with: Maurice Evans, Part I - Detroit Pistons Fan Community

~~buddahfan~~ · #1 (**permalink**) 08-12-2007, 10:35 PM

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As some of you may already know, Lakers swingman Maurice Evans recently took part in the NBA Player's Assn.'s "Feeding One Million" campaign, a partnership with Feed The Children to help provide food, clothing, medicine and other essential items to 1 million children in Kenya. Evans accompanied Ron Artest (Sacramento Kings), Theo Ratliff (Minnesota Timberwolves) and Etan Thomas (Washington Wizards) to Africa, embarking on an eye-opening journey into a plight and poverty most of us are lucky enough to find unimaginable. I caught up with Mo by phone a few days ago, and we discussed the goodwill mission, how the trip affected him on a personal level and, of course, hoops (Lakers or otherwise). Here's Part 1 of what he had to say:

Andrew Kamenetzky: How did you find out about the trip to Kenya?

Maurice Evans: Actually, I have been with Feed the Children already prior to that. They did the "Feed the 5,000," which was feeding 5,000 families in Oakland. We did that when I was in Detroit. We fed 5,000 families there. And last year, with the Lakers, we went to New York and a couple guys from the team were involved with that as well. (Players Assn. President) Billy Hunter knew that I had been involved in the first two and called me over the summer and asked me if I was interested in doing (the trip to Kenya), and I was like, "without a doubt." I wanted to help these people.

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coynejeremy · #2 (**permalink**) 08-12-2007, 11:49 PM

Fantastic interview, fantastic experience Mo had there. I clicked on the link expecting to hear him play himself up about hanging out in the sheltered areas over there. It was very glad to be proved wrong. I wish more NBAers would do this kind of thing, and more people in general. I hope the NBA can get this growing more and more. This sounds like something that is really helping people. I think all the literacy programs and whatnot are excellent ways to spend your time, but things like this, where people are truly in need, are what the NBA and people with means like that need to be more invloved. Can I come too?

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