Walk for Peace in Chicago with NBA
Anyone that knows me knows that I love watching NBA basketball. And while that may be limited to five to six teams, I still just love watching the game. Over the summer, life is kinda slow for a NBA fan because not much is going on, so I watch the baseball scores, football highlights, and old NBA games. However, some pretty big news is circulating the NBA and that is a walk for peace in Chicago with NBA players.
If you are familiar with Chicago streets you know that it is pretty bad over there right now. In one weekend three weeks ago, twenty (20) people were shot in a span of twenty-four hours and that is just horrible. Some other guys thought so also and decided to do something about it.
Walk for Peace in Chicago with NBA Players Noah and Gibson
Quentin Richardson, a Chicago native, Joakim Noah (Bulls Center), and Taj Gibson (Bulls forward) all decided to lace up the shoes, but not to play ball, instead to walk against gang violence and talk to young gang members. This is a really nice thing to do because they are really killing in these streets and the younger guys who aren’t killing yet need to see, know, and understand there is a better way. There is light outside of their sometimes extremely dark neighborhoods.
Walk for Peace in Chicago with NBA Players
NBA legend Isaiah Thomas was there and the entire thing made for a really good event. To me, these things are good for a moment and if the hand does not stay with the movement, one out of a hundred gang members lives improves. When you keep doing something every day, I believe you can reach more people. This is good for the Chicago Bulls because with All-Star and the former MVP, Derek Rose, out for most of the 2012-2013 NBA season, this event might be one of the few positive things these Chicago Bulls and their fans will see this season.
One of the goals for the walk in Chicago is to get rival gangs to come together to play a sport. Now this can be good and it can be bad because emotions tend to fly when you play sports, especially against your rival gang. Nevertheless, the mission is clear; let’s stop shooting each other and let’s start shooting hoops. Let’s start shooting for the stars to improve our lives, our families, our communities. Let’s stop taking each others lives for petty reasons and let’s fight the forces of evil together.
These guys could start a business and get training to do it, they could be back in school, they could be taught how and why it is vital for them to be part of society and not the dark side that has evil intentions all the time. The walk for peace in Chicago with NBA players is great, and we have to build on this by teaching the essentials of life to these young men and women. We’re just happy the NBA and these guys took a step to help a violent filled city today!
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