Mike Miller Donates $1 Million To South Dakota Hospital
23rd May, 2007 - 2:30 pm
Press Release -

Sanford Health announced on Wednesday during a groundbreaking ceremony for a new children’s hospital building that Mitchell, South Dakota native and NBA player Mike Miller and his wife Jennifer are donating $1 million to help ill children. The money will establish the Mike and Jennifer Miller Endowment Fund which will provide support for Sanford Children’s Hospital. Out of tremendous gratitude, Sanford has named its pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) the Mike and Jennifer Miller Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.

“Everybody in South Dakota knows Mike as a basketball player,” says Sanford Health president and CEO Kelby Krabbenhoft. “Mike and Jen will long be remembered for their charity and philanthropy. Mike’s basketball life is being used for much more than what people see...he and Jen are going to directly impact the lives of children and families. Mike and his family are a blessing to our region and its people.”

I hope Bundybury is taking notes Mike's helping save lives giving away his resources, while WATERMELON HEAD is helping kids in the ghetto and suburbs put extra pair of shoes in their closets, collecting a fat paycheck.

You sir, should be tarred and feathered for this post. Do you forget the post-Katrina aid? What have you done that allows you to look down on "Bundybury".

Get some help!

It must be said...Marbury gave between $500,000 and $1,000,000 to Katrina victims...The donation amount wasn't disclosed, I think?...But why pick on Marbs because Mike Miller and his family is doing a very good thing...

I think TRUE philanthropy is busting your nuts volunteering every week within the community. Writing a big check and then walking away doesn't impress me. Do you really think the guy did anything philanthropy related before he became rich, famous, and in the public eye. Um... no.

TRUE philanthropy is Warren Buffet donating 37 Billion USD to the Bill Gates foundation....I don't care if the guy ever lifted a spoon or have any intentions of ever lifting one in the future...That's is just an awesome effort on his part and is now a hero in my eyes...He's not a bad trader either...

Yeah man this is totally lame. Let's talk about it though.

A childrens hospital is fine place to donate to. Those places take in families that can't afford the care so its a good cause.

Ok. Mutumbo is building a hospital in the Congo. That is bad ass. That area is aids infested and they lack a clean, modern enough facility to properly care for people there. Great.

People give according to how they are brought up and what they feel most attached to or relate to.

America. Hurricane katrina proved that this country doesn't care about the working class/ poor. Look around nyc. With all the developing all of a sudden, with all these luxury condos being put up, who is there to stick up for the regular folk?

Anyway, back to karina. Who were the ones to step in and pick up the hardest hit down in NO? Celebrities. Sean Penn was on a boat with shotgun in hand trying to rescue as many people as he could. KG and other NBA guys and various other people like Chris rock, etc got whatever trucks they could get their hands on filled with all the basic supplies they thought people would need from their local walmarts, targets, etc. Fema? Those bastards were late with help, then reneged on it asking the people to give it back.

What I'm getting at is, here in America the regular people, the ones that are living check to check, in between jobs and on public assistance need help. Rents are going up in all the major cities and there are no decent jobs to compensate. There is no balance.

Enter Mo' Vaughn. This mofo and his business partner has a deal worked out that allows him to own major low income properties and refurbish them to livable places. Major rebuilding of peoples run down apartments, rebuilding safe areas for the children to play. Placing proper security around the complex like cameras and guards. It makes the people feel safe and proud to live in their areas again. All this without raising rents. Yes, mo' Vaughn is making a profit off of this. Why else would he do it? This is the mission that he embarked on to help communities that nobody cares about.

Back to marbury. Yes the dude gave around 1 million out of pocket to katrina victims. Nice. Why should he have to do that to the richest country in the world? Aside from katrina the mofo has this starbury deal with Steve and Barry. In a time where all athletes care about it that 90 million dollar sneaker deal, marbs is the first to put out a $15 shoe with $10 clothing to match. Marbs could be pocketing 1 billion dollars off the deal, so ****ing what? If a poor family can't afford to feed their children, how the hell are the gonna get some decent clothing when the old stuff get worn out? They don't have to look tacky. They can look like they belong in society with a decent appearance and not have to kill mofos just too look decent. That is the movement he spoke about and I relate to myself. The stress of not being able to support yourself is bad. Marbury and Steve and Barry is giving poor people their self respect back through clothing.

Marbs also has his hands all over the coney island area he grew up in. He has people on his personal payroll that do a lot of small things for the community.

Mo' Vaughn and marbs are just 2 athletes that are doing great things with their time, money. Celebrity status.

Angelina jolie and Madonna. These women like to adopt foreign babies from 3rd world counties. That's nice. Ok, what about the hungry needy kids that live a couple exits off the turnpike from her, that live in poverty that nobody remembers or cares about?

Anybody know Kat Williams? That the comedian that always plays a pimp in movies. Well that mofo thought the same way and adopted a FEW kids right from places "down the block" as he would say that needed a good home. He isn't even a B list celeb.

You know its ok to donate money or start foundations for cancer but if you have major money, all that is just bull****. mo Vaughn changed the lives of real people that need it. If Vaughn didn't take some of these low income housing under his wing, they probably would have been bought by a company that wants to turn them into luxury complexes.

I just would like to see more people with the money to take a more active stand on what's going on right here in America. Not everyone can be a millionare. Not all people can make over 50k. Those that can need to look to see who they can help along the way.

This thread reveals far more about the thread starter than it does about Marbury or Miller.

Great post EnySpree. I'd also like to see more people WITHOUT money to take a more active stand on what's going on in American.

"We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service relationship to humanity." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

good post enyspree: If more companies decided to do what marbury has done, it would be a big relief for many families in this country. I know it is not a necessity to have a nice pair of name brand tennis shoes and gear, but kids have to wear clothes and have shoes, those are a must, so if you can give them something of quality and take less profit, that is a service, it is giving back, if you make money in the process, so what...

this is just insane....

the man pour out tears during katrina and cut that "the whole country was philantrophical crap"

you may not like stephon marbury the basketball player, but to trash stephon marbury the man is just downright asinine

you need to get your priorities in check, because marbury does so much for the community its not even funny..

in coney island alone he has people that sing his praises, like i said u may not like him as aplayer but dont judge his character if your going to just analyze one facet of his life

trueblue i must say you are a coward and an amateur.