Otto Porter Jr.

[CanYouDigIt]

[QUOTE]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

[ralph_i_el]

:applause: :applause: :applause: dat heart

[Go Getter]

Nice to see a ball player who shares his wealth.

[kNicKz]

Stories like this never get enough attention

:applause:

[senelcoolidge]

Perhaps sitting down with the homeless man gave Porter some perspective of how he could end up if he doesn't pan out in the NBA. A reality check. The article failed to mention that the homeless man was Shawn Kemp.

[Rake2204]

Stories like this never get enough attention

:applause:I concur. I've tentatively become a fan of Otto Porter Jr. after this little tidbit.

[hangintheair]

Perhaps sitting down with the homeless man gave Porter some perspective of how he could end up if he doesn't pan out in the NBA. A reality check. The article failed to mention that the homeless man was Shawn Kemp.

Your joke is older than the internet.

[OldSkoolball#52]

I dont understand.

If the man was homeless and hungry, why didnt he go to a shelter and get food and a bed, and then utilize their job placement services?


Why was he standing outside begging for free stuff?


I guess that somehow makes him more sympathetic?



Weird... :confusedshrug:

[Scholar]

A really nice thing for Otto to do. I especially like the fact that he didn't go on Twitter or post in Facebook about his generosity. :applause:

[DuMa]

this is better than giving homeless men money.

[I<3NBA]

I dont understand.

If the man was homeless and hungry, why didnt he go to a shelter and get food and a bed, and then utilize their job placement services?


Why was he standing outside begging for free stuff?


I guess that somehow makes him more sympathetic?



Weird... :confusedshrug:
maybe he is so ignorant he doesn't know about these things?

[kNicKz]

I dont understand.

If the man was homeless and hungry, why didnt he go to a shelter and get food and a bed, and then utilize their job placement services?


Why was he standing outside begging for free stuff?


I guess that somehow makes him more sympathetic?



Weird... :confusedshrug:

You think you can just walk into a shelter and get food and a bed? It doesn't exactly work like that. You're actually going at the homeless man ?:facepalm Pathetic

[JohnRuck]

I once seen two homeless men beating each other up with their cardboard boxes.....
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Pillow fight.

[fandarko]

Props to Porter.

I'm walking up a street packed with coffee shops and restaurants near my house the other day and this guy approaches me. "Can you spare a dime bro, I just got out of jail". He looks exactly like it. "I asked around (in the packed coffee shops), but nobody would give me anything". I give him the equivalent of ten bucks (he can buy like two hamburgers with it in my country). "Why have you done time for?". "I worked in a company bro, I was stealing stuff".

[senelcoolidge]

I once bought a homeless man a burger and he looked at the burger and said " WTF is this"? No gratitude. I knew he threw that sh#t away. He wanted money.

[dr.hee]

Props to Porter.

I'm walking up a street packed with coffee shops and restaurants near my house the other day and this guy approaches me. "Can you spare a dime bro, I just got out of jail". He looks exactly like it. "I asked around (in the packed coffee shops), but nobody would give me anything". I give him the equivalent of ten bucks (he can buy like two hamburgers with it in my country). "Why have you done time for?". "I worked in a company bro, I was stealing stuff".

Where you from?

[fandarko]

Where you from?

Serbia

[3peated]

I dont understand.

If the man was homeless and hungry, why didnt he go to a shelter and get food and a bed, and then utilize their job placement services?


Why was he standing outside begging for free stuff?


I guess that somehow makes him more sympathetic?



Weird... :confusedshrug:

the focus is that the soon to be millionaire basketball star is sitting down with a homeless man he's never met and doing a good deed, if the homeless man deserves it or not isn't really the point.

[#number6ix#]

Perhaps sitting down with the homeless man gave Porter some perspective of how he could end up if he doesn't pan out in the NBA. A reality check. The article failed to mention that the homeless man was Shawn Kemp.
:oldlol: :oldlol: :oldlol: ... great story i got all the respect in the world for Otto:rockon:

[Brokenbeat]

You think you can just walk into a shelter and get food and a bed? It doesn't exactly work like that. You're actually going at the homeless man ?:facepalm Pathetic

Don't mind him, he's obviously a Republican. Apparently he doesn't know that you can't just hang out at the shelters all day either.

[kNicKz]

Don't mind him, he's obviously a Republican. Apparently he doesn't know that you can't just hang out at the shelters all day either.

This isn't even about pointless political parties... he clearly doesn't understand what being homeless is like. I've never been homeless but thinking that a homeless person has all of those resources readily available to them is beyond ignorant. Dude needs to hop off MSNBC and Fox News and go volunteer at one of these shelters that he knows so much about

[millwad]

Really respect this, shows that the kid has a great character. The money and the food is something alot of people would do but for a kid who just got drafted and who has a million dollar contract you don't really expect that he would sit down next to a homeless man and see him as an equal individual.

Athletes and people nowadays are very self-centred, to see a very successful young man in a sport full of macho stereotypes you don't expect to see someone with a big heart.

[R.I.P.]

Really respect this, shows that the kid has a great character. The money and the food is something alot of people would do but for a kid who just got drafted and who has a million dollar contract you don't really expect that he would sit down next to a homeless man and see him as an equal individual.

Athletes and people nowadays are very self-centred, to see a very successful young man in a sport full of macho stereotypes you don't expect to see someone with a big heart.
:applause:
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And we need places like this to learn about it, cause it sure as hell ain

[Bandito]

You think you can just walk into a shelter and get food and a bed? It doesn't exactly work like that. You're actually going at the homeless man ?:facepalm Pathetic
He probably is one of those sheltered white boys who think everything is white and black and the world is made of fluffy bunnies and buildings of candy.

Reality is oldskoolball is that those shelters work in amounts of food, and if you don't come at a certain time you're not getting anything.

[Scholar]

OldSkoolBall always has the worst opinions about the most benevolent of actions.
I love how people who have never been homeless or possibly even interacted with a homeless person beyond ignoring them when asked for change, go about acting like they know the situation. :rolleyes:

[Budadiiii]

All "good deeds" are selfish in nature.

He just has weird survival instincts. Somehow sitting down with a homeless man and eating lunch with him subconsciously makes him feel better about his chances to survive. Helping people = survival

Let's not praise the guy. I think it would be more fitting to call him strange and paranoid.

[Djsonny]

All "good deeds" are selfish in nature.

He just has weird survival instincts. Somehow sitting down with a homeless man and eating lunch with him subconsciously makes him feel better about his chances to survive. Helping people = survival

Let's not praise the guy. I think it would be more fitting to call him strange and paranoid.

Lets not praise the guy? I"m sure he has done more than you have to help people. A guy who buys a homeless man lunch and sit and talk to him is someone you call strange and paranoid?

[bagelred]

:rolleyes: We don't share sandwiches with homeless people in America. That's Socialism, people! Otto should have told him to get a job and leave him be. That's how we roll....