NBA players—and athletes in general—get a bad rap. There are a lot of them out there who do really, really nice things for people and try to make the world a better place. But far too often, it goes completely unnoticed. Why? Well, sadly, "NBA PLAYER SHOOTS UP A STRIP CLUB!" gets way more attention than "NBA Player Helps A School Get A New Computer Lab." For better or worse, that's the way the world works these days. But even with that being said, we're going to go out on a limb today and bet that you will absolutely love a recent story about an NBA player eating a sandwich with a homeless man.
That NBA player is Otto Porter, who was selected third overall in the 2013 NBA Draft by the Washington Wizards. And the story comes courtesy of a "Letter to the Editor" that ran in the Washington Post today. It was written by a man named Michael Stein who lives in Maryland and it goes like this….
On Friday, during a very stressful week for Washington, I looked to escape the madness for 30 minutes on what was a warm fall afternoon. I was reading The Post and eating a quick lunch at a table outside a local sandwich shop while a disheveled homeless man sat nearby, persistently and unsuccessfully asking anyone who walked by if he or she could “spare a sandwich.”
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[via Washington Post]
