LAS VEGAS (KSNV) \u2014 Former basketball players took some time out of their day to help feed those in need in Las Vegas on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Retired NBA player Doug Lee partnered with Three Square Food Bank<\/a>, Hope For The City<\/a> and Mater Academy of Nevada East Campus to provide food to hundreds of Southern Nevada families.<\/p>\n The special distribution event, held alongside NBA Summer League, aimed to address hunger through collaboration.<\/p>\n Derrick Coleman, who played for 15 seasons, said he and other volunteers care about the community and want to turn out to support people in other NBA cities.<\/p>\n “We’re about really coming out and letting people know that we still care about them, regardless of their situation,” Coleman said. <\/p>\n Three Square says one in six Southern Nevadans experiences food insecurity and doesn’t always know where their next meal will come from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS (KSNV) \u2014 Former basketball players took some time out of their day to help feed those…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":768567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-768566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}