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Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2009 7:23 pm Post subject: Another Random Old NBA Story |
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Someone was reviewing what happened to the people in the 1994 NBA draft, and this story stood out:
Quote: | - 11th pick: Carlos Rogers (Seattle) - Rogers's last NBA stint came in 2001/02 with the Indiana Pacers. I seem to recall that he left the team without giving a reason, and was waived, although I can't find proof of that. He then did nothing for six years, until he signed in Columbia last October with a team called Canoneros Norte De Cucuta. He left in February 2009. Outside of basketball, Carlos was on a show last March called Oprah's Big Give, in which he donated $1,000 cash to help build a playground for an elementary school in Houston. That was nice of him. Also, here's a Carlos Rogers fact that you probably already knew: before he was drafted, Carlos Rogers' sister got very ill and needed a kidney transplant. Carlos offered one of his, acutely aware of what it would do to his NBA career. His sister told him to keep it, and got a cadaver kidney from elsewhere. But it soon failed, so Carlos immediately retired so that he could donate one of his to keep her alive. However, she died before it could be done, and Carlos resumed his career, managing a few more years in the NBA before going silent on us |
Shouldn't someone else in the family volunteered the kidney, since...his was earning at least hundreds of thousands of dollars being right where it was? |
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