Lil’ Wayne supplied gear for Jonas Jerebko’s camp
SLAM’s Adam Figman published a great in-depth interview with Jonas Jerebko today that’s well worth a read, particularly Jerebko talking about growing up in the game in Sweden.
But since we had a little diversion last week talking about Detroit Pistons connections to hip hop, I figured I’d point out this passage:
SLAM: You hosted a basketball camp this past summer in Michigan. How’d that go?
JJ: It went great. That’s something I always wanted to do. I kind of wanted to do it at home—coming from Sweden, I wanted to give an NBA experience to the kids over here. But I just felt like the best situation was in Detroit and I wanted to have my own basketball camp. We got about 50 people signed up for it, and then we decided to fill the camp up—we wanted to have a full camp—so we got in contact with an AAU team down in downtown Detroit, and we gave that team free scholarships for the whole camp and we just decided to fill the camp up with free scholarships. We had kids from all over Michigan send applications via YouTube on why they should come to the camp for free. Kids were driving three hours [to come]; we had kids from downtown who couldn’t even get to the arena, so we went and picked ‘em up. The kids got free t-shirts and gear—Lil Wayne was really nice and sent a lot of Trukfit gear.
SLAM: Wait, what?
JJ: I don’t really know how he found out about it, but somehow Wayne got word of it and was kind enough to send gear for all the kids.
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Dec 3, 2012 • 1:07 pm
by brandow
wow thought a detroit native like eminem or kid rock would help out but lil wayne, now that surprizes me
Dec 3, 2012 • 1:49 pm
by am
thats super dope…
Dec 3, 2012 • 2:16 pm
by Mark
LOL, this defines the term “random act of kindness”.
Lil Wayne donating gear to a Swedish basketball player’s childrens camp is about as random as it gets, lol.
Dec 3, 2012 • 2:22 pm
by Patrick Hayes
Definitely. And the camp was in Rochester, Michigan, no less.
Dec 3, 2012 • 4:36 pm
by Crispus
I saw a thing during the Dew Tour about how Lil Wayne built a skate park in a depressed part of New Orleans. He’s all about the kids!
http://espn.go.com/action/skateboarding/story/_/id/8436813/lil-wayne-opens-deweezy-skatepark-new-orleans-ninth-ward
Maybe him and Lupe Fiasco can do a “Kick, Push III”.
Dec 3, 2012 • 3:08 pm
by omar
Im having a problem viewing the site…
Dec 3, 2012 • 3:24 pm
by Patrick Hayes
This should fix it: http://www.pistonpowered.com/2011/06/add-us-to-your-adblock-whitelist/
Dec 3, 2012 • 4:37 pm
by omar
thanks that helped.
Dec 3, 2012 • 5:14 pm
by I HATE FRANK
Maybe Jonas can get Wayne too do a halftime show….
I guarantee it would be a bigger attraction than Arrested Development, and Bobby Brown
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Dec 9, 2012 • 6:20 am
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[...] And, on the karmic end of things, he’s more than made up for it by out of nowhere deciding to donate the outfits for Jonas Jerebko‘s youth basketball camp. That’s right — Lil Wayne gave Detroit Pistons forward Jonas Jerebko the keys to the Trukfit kingdom. From SLAM Magazine, via Piston Powered: [...]
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Dec 9, 2012 • 6:26 am
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[...] And, on the karmic end of things, he’s more than made up for it by out of nowhere deciding to donate the outfits forJonas Jerebko‘s youth basketball camp. That’s right — Lil Wayne gave Detroit Pistons forward Jonas Jerebkothe keys to the Trukfit kingdom. From SLAM Magazine, via Piston Powered: [...]