David Lee plays streetball in the projects? It's true, Ron Artest said so.

Posted on Tue Jul 17, 2007 at 01:13:26 AM EST in NBA
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No, no, no; not that David Lee.

If you're curious about how Ron Artest is spending his off-season, you'd probably be surprised to know that the NBA's bad boy is currently in Nairobi, Kenya, with Theo Ratliff, Maurice Evans, Etan Thomas and NBA Players Association president Billy Hunter in a joint effort with "Feed the Children." Surprisingly, Artest is being productive for a change. At least he's not the latest celebrity to treat a third world country like a petting zoo as they look for a cute native child to pluck from some village. And thank goodness, no child deserves to be raised by Ron Ron. What's even more surprising than Artest actually participating in a charitable cause is that he seems to be learning from the experience.

These people are not eating," Artest said. "They haven't taken showers, and the sewers are right outside their house. And it's not even sewers with running water. It's like a little ditch so they can throw their feces in."

"And little 1-year-old babies are walking around and playing right next to it, wearing clothes that look like they've been in a New York train station and run over by a '7' train 100 times. All the ghettos in New York City, the only thing that can compare to this is New Orleans when Katrina happened. And this is worse than Katrina.

We say any maturity is good maturity when it comes to Artest, so we're pretty impressed with his actions. But, even more shocking than Ron starting to act his age is that he plays streetball in the ghetto with David Lee.

If some crazy scenario happened where I was with the Knicks, I would want David Lee there," Artest said. "I love David Lee. I played with him in the 'hood last summer, and he showed so much heart. They were trying to rough up David Lee, but David Lee got rough right back. And this was the projects, you know? And I respected that.

Wow, does this sound like a real life White Men Can't Jump or what?

Links:
[Newsday.com]: Ron Artest now a man on a mission

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