The Cleveland Cavaliers players, coaches, and front office came out to support Evan Mobley’s Beyond the Game Gala on Thursday evening. The event was the first for the newly founded Mobley Family Foundation.
“The foundation is based on our family, and all the core values that I learned growing up,” Mobley said.
The foundation is indeed based on his family. It was launched with the help of his brother Isaiah. The foundation’s four focuses are financial fitness, physical fitness, mental and emotional
fitness, and academic and career fitness. They want to use those pillars as ways of “breaking cycles of poverty, transforming lives, and creating opportunities for future generations.”
These are things that were taught to the Mobley brothers at a young age, with their mom being an educator and their dad being a coach. They were values they showed, but most importantly, displayed at home.
“It just goes back to my parents,” Mobley said. “We had foster kids growing up, and also had a foreign exchange student as well. So we always welcomed people into our family, try to make their situation better. So that’s just how I grew up. And I just want to extend that to Cleveland and provide that for them because they’ve provided so much for me.”
Thursday’s gala was a fundraising event. Mobley and his teammates were there to graciously meet guests, sign autographs, and take selfies with nearly everybody in attendance. This is something the Cavaliers have shown they’re willing to do for their teammates. Last February, it was for Max Strus. This time it was Mobley.
Going the extra mile to show up for an event like this on an off day means a lot.
“Not all teams are built like that,” Mobley said. “[Sometimes] you have events and no one will show up. … I really appreciate them.”
This event was just the start. Mobley is excited about the impact his foundation can have now and in the future.
“I really want to see it get really big, honestly, that’s the main goal,” Mobley said. “We’re just going to take it day-by-day, kid-by-kid, and just help as many people as we can. As the years go on and as it gets bigger, we have a lot of things planned and in place that we’re going to get to. In 2026, we have a scholarship program coming out. So as it gets bigger, it’s going to be more and more [impactful].”
