Kevin Durant donates $1 million to the Red Cross

[James D]

I haven't had any dealings with the Red Cross in several years now but based on my personal experience working with them in business they were horribly inefficient and had their heads up their asses. I would find it hard to believe that they've changed much in the past 4/5 years. I was ashamed to see how this outfit did business. Not even remotely efficient. I haven't looked at what you posted closely but I'd take any report with a grain of salt that says they have efficient practices. Talk to people who have had to deal with them and see what they say.

I do not doubt that you had bad experiences personally. However you have to realize how insignificant one persons personal experience is on the grand scheme of things. If your next door neighbor goes to vegas and wins you are not going to assume that vegas is just handing free money out at the airport. Your neighbors was just one single experience out of tens of millions. Just like your experience with the red cross. The red cross allocates billions of dollars of course there is some waste but all independent audits by reputable organizations say the red cross does really good work and is like I said very efficient.

[EmpireMaker]

This is a classy move other NBA players should follow Durant he is a solid role model for the whole league.

[GoBlue77]

like BidD said, he is a genuine dude and cares. when he was being interviewed on espn at the tornado devastation areas he got choked up and glassy eyed when hearing about some of the kids that didn't make it. dude is class act.

[thunderous]

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-ball-dont-lie/kevin-durant-taps-nike-donate-1-million-products-145141563.html

Now he got Nike to pitch in!

[PAULYPOKER]

Kevin Durant taps Nike to donate $1M in products, sneaker profits to Oklahoma tornado relief



Kevin Durant walks past tornado-damaged homes in Moore, Okla. (AP/Sue Ogrocki)


Kevin Durant!!

[19th Hole]

Send moolah...

[seaborneq]

SEVEN BILLION TAX FREE DOLLARS[/B] to a victims fund. Couple that with the enormous amount of public donations the fund was inconceivably large.

Average compensation for family of deceased 9-11 victim $2,083,000 tax free
Average compensation for injured victim on 9-11 $400,000 tax free

This is one of the rare cases where the red cross should keep some of the donations for future relief efforts

I had no idea this happened. A bigger deal should have been made of this.