In a month that has seen his 2007-08 Boston Celtics back in the news courtesy of the induction of his former head coach Doc Rivers being inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, former Boston forward Leon Powe has been paying forward what he learned in Boston and at other stops of his NBA career in a basketball camp.
"It’s really good talking to the kids," said Powe in a recent interviewwith Portland Press Herald reporter Jimmy James. "It was really special for me because … I’m here to teach. I’m trying to instill in them competition because life out there is not fair. It’s not easy. And I don’t want to make it seem like that."
"So out here, on the court, that was my safe haven … I had to work hard on the court, so I want to bring
that to them," added the Celtics champion swingman, who is still a community ambassador for Boston all these years later.
"(The Celtics) make sure when we join this team, we are family," he explained. "That’s what we teach — family. We preach it all the time, especially with the Celtics."
"And we’re more so in the community a lot, too. … I love doing what I do because it’s helping kids, helping people, motivational speaking, things like that with the organization."
As the saying that defined the Ubuntu-era Celtics goes, I am because we are, after all. And Powe is still spreading that gospel.
Listen to "Havlicek Stole the Pod" on:
Blue Wire: https://tiny.ee/CdKp
iTunes: https://tiny.ee/RK47
YouTube:https://tiny.ee/cOW3
This article originally appeared on Celtics Wire: Leon Powe looks to Boston Celtics past for basketball camp of today
