I'm impressed with Duhon giving $30,000 since other guys have made over 70+ million already and are only giving alittle more.

NBA players pledge further support to Gulf Coast
By Roscoe Nance, USA TODAY

The NBA Players Association increased its pledge of financial support for victims of Hurricane Katrina by $1.5 million Tuesday. It also announced that it is partnering with Feed The Children, the Christian non-profit international relief organization based in Oklahoma City in Operation Rebound, to help with the recovery effort.
The union originally pledged to make a $1 million donation.

"That was a starting point," union director of player programs Purvis Short said following a news conference in New York.

Operation Rebound actually began last week and 90 tractor trailers filled with food, water, clothes and other supplies have already made deliveries in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, which were directly affected by the storm. Supplies have also reached shelters in Tennessee, Georgia and Texas where evacuees are housed. Another 30 trucks will be dispatched later this week.

Operation Rebound will also include a Compassion Caravan, a convoy of 10-12 trucks, which will leave Jackson, Miss., sometime next week to deliver food and supplies to the Gulf region. Players will be aboard the trucks to hand out supplies.

In addition, New York Knicks guard Stephon Marbury personally pledged to donate between $500,000 and $1 million this season.

"Our biggest motivation to (become involved) is the need for help," union president Antonio Davis said. "We're human beings first of all. Just watching on TV gives you a sense of how bad things are. Then you talk to people like P.J. (Brown of the New Orleans Hornets, who lost his home in Slidell, La.), it's beyond comprehension. We're trying to put our heads together and figure out how to help.

"It's like Stephon said — you almost feel guilty. We're here, warm, and we've got water and food. Those people have nothing. We're in this thing all through the rebuilding."

Union secretary Pat Garrity said players throughout the league have been deeply touched by the storm's devastation — even though most weren't personally affected — because a large number of their peers are from Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana.

"Guys have a lot of pride in where they come from," Garrity said. "To see what happen to their neighbors, friends and families has been terrible for everyone."

Short grew up in Hattiesburg, Miss., and his brother Eugene, a former No. 1 draft pick by the Knicks, still lives there. He returned to Hattiesburg last weekend and got a first hand look at the damage that Katrina inflicted.

"I've never seen so many trees pulled up, roots and all," he said. "I didn't see a house that didn't have wind damage. The devastation is unbelievable."

Short said that union is planning other projects to assist victims, and that it will be involved throughout the recovery and rebuilding process in the Gulf region.

"This is not a one-shot deal," he said. "It's an ongoing thing."

Marbs ain't walking away anytime soon.

Now if we see him breatfeeding babies next week we might want to scale back a bit.

im very very proud to have stephon on the new york knicks and i hope he retires here, born and raised, NY should embrace him to the fullest

Just caught it. Thanks for the head-up, Reezy.

Very moving indeed. I wonder if anyone he knew died? Also, I do agree we should donate, but then I question as to why we should if someone like Bush has all of these troops in Iraq and not here helping the people after this huge tradgedy. Once again, Bush is showing that he is one of the worst presidents we have ever had. I will donate, but I sure as hell don't like how he's running this whole American System. It's disgusting.

Marbury did not lose any relatives in the disaster, but he has pledged to donate a minimum of $500,000 over the course of the season, in which he will make $16 million.

noo relatives... thats sum good stuff...

Posted by Elite:

im very very proud to have stephon on the new york knicks and i hope he retires here, born and raised, NY should embrace him to the fullest

Great job by Marbury but this has nothing to do with that.

I always respected Marbz and I do even more now. Like my Boy Kanye said "Bush doesn't like black people". This should open your eyes and show you that racism still exist. It hurts me to see my people floating around and starving. And for to idiot that said Marbs did it to write off his taxes or that 1.5 million wont hurt him cause he is so rich, go **** your selves. Just watchin that **** gets me upset.