Several Lakers players, along with NBA spokesman Clyde Drexler, helped celebrate Wednesday’s opening of the Lakers Reading and Learning Center at the Boys and Girls Club of East Los Angeles.
Derek Fisher, Andrew Bynum, Luke Walton, Sasha Vujacic and Pau Gasol joined the Hall of Famer Drexler in the ribbon-cutting ceremony at 324 N. Mcdonnell Ave. A new media center, which included new computers and a game room, was also unveiled.
“When I was a kid, I spent a lot of my afternoons at the Boys and Girls Club in Little Rock (Ark.),”
Fisher told approximately 100 kids. “I got into trouble there, but a lot of my dreams started there, too.”
Fisher said he played a lot of ping-pong, but “I don’t remember the homework program. Heck, I never did homework there.”
This was the 12th center the Lakers have sponsored in partnership with the NBA and Toyota.
Toyota Project Rebound is a community initiative established by the NBA and Toyota. The program includes 15 hands-on community service projects sponsored by NBA and WNBA teams, and will include court refurbishments, the creation of Learn & Play Centers, and other Legacy Projects providing youth safe places to live, learn or play.
