Top NBA Draft Prospects to Take Part in Basketball & Books Clinic at Dunlevy Milbank Center

July 23, 2005

Media Advisory

Who:
Bob Lanier, NBA Community Relations Ambassador
Andrew Bogut, University of Utah
Raymond Felton, University of North Carolina
Channing Frye, Arizona
Danny Granger, New Mexico
Gerald Green, Gulf Shores Academy (Houston)
Yaroslav Korolev, CSKA Moscow (Russia)
Sean May, University of North Carolina
Rashad McCants, University of North Carolina
Chris Paul, Wake Forest
Fran Vazquez, Unicaja Malaga (Spain)
Charlie Villanueva, University of Connecticut
Hakim Warrick, Syracuse University
Martell Webster, Seattle Prep (Seattle, WA)
Deron Williams, Illinois
Marvin Williams, University of North Carolina
Antoine Wright, Texas A&M
*Players Subject to Change

What:
As part of the Basketball & Books Clinic, the players will conduct Reading Timeouts with the children and then break up into groups to run drills on dribbling, passing and shooting.

Reaching an estimated 50 million children a year, Read to Achieve is the most extensive educational outreach initiative in the history of professional sports. Efforts of the NBA’s Read to Achieve program includes the annual donation of more than a million books and magazines through a variety of reading events and incentive programs, as well as the development of essay contests and on-line programs.

When:
Monday, June 27 at 3:00 p.m.

Where:
The Children's Aid Society's Dunlevy Milbank Center
14-32 West 118th Street
New York, NY 10029
(212) 996-1716

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Contacts:
Peter Lagiovane, NBA, (212) 407-8537 or plagiovane@nba.com
Emily Crossan, The Children’s Aid Society, (917) 286-1548 or emilyc@childrensaidsociety.org