A delegation from the National Basketball Players Association met with Pope Francis in the library of the Apostolic Palace.<\/p>\n
Among those present were five players, Kyle Korver, Marco Belinelli, Sterling Brown, Anthony Tolliver and Jonathan Isaac.<\/p>\n
They each got a chance to share their different social initiatives with the pope.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe all have so many things that are wrong with us and that are wrong with our society, and we see it and we know it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The pope thanked them for using basketball as a means to help solve social problems. He also praised them for setting an example of teamwork.<\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> These athletes didn't come empty-handed. The pope happily accepted this golden Spalding basketball.<\/p>\n \u201cThank you, thanks so much.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThank you for having us.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThis is a book put together, you know, by the players association, of mediator things that us players have done to use our voices and to fight for equality, unity, justice.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Jonathan Isaac gave him an autographed jersey...<\/p>\n \u201cThis is on behalf of the Orlando Magic and myself. Just the signed-- my jersey.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cYou?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cYes, that's me.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n ...and a gift from J.U.M.P Ministries Global Church in Orlando, which the pope blessed.<\/p>\n The NBPA Foundation is dedicated to preserving the legacy of its members while supporting people, communities and organizations that seek to better the lives of those in need.<\/p>\n CT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" November 23, 2020. Each of the five players present shared a different social initiative with the pope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15721,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/fMk33zZULTo","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpapanbaeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpapanbaint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45982"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u201cThe beauty of athletes is that they are great, but to be part of a team, they always remain humble.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n