[轉錄][外絮] 小米粒拍賣冠軍戒做慈善

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※ [本文轉錄自 NBA 看板 #1DdJlcpo ] 作者: laogiby (中肯伯) 看板: NBA 標題: [外絮] 小米粒拍賣冠軍戒做慈善時間: Thu Apr 7 12:21:53 2011 Milicic to auction NBA title ring for charity 小米粒拍賣冠軍戒做慈善 By JON KRAWCZYNSKI MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Darko Milicic is auctioning the 2004 NBA championship ring he won with the Detroit Pistons to raise money and awareness for children dealing with the terminal illness Batten's disease. Batten's is a neurological disorder that affects mostly children and gradually causes blindness, seizures and death. Milicic is also auctioning off the championship belt that was given to him by Rasheed Wallace. ``Whatever money (I raise) is going to be good because those treatments cost a lot and those people can't afford it,'' Milicic said before his Minnesota Timberwolves played the Phoenix Suns on Wednesday night. Milicic became familiar with the condition after he and his wife read a newspaper story in his native Serbia about a family confronted with it. Out of the blue, he paid for four children to travel to China for stem cell treatments. The treatments cost $35,000 each. So Milicic is trying to raise more money until doctors come up with more affordable treatments in the United States and elsewhere. He got the idea from Ron Artest, who auctioned off his Lakers championship ring to raise money for mental health programs in schools. ``He did a great job,'' said Milicic, a father of two young children. ``I'm going to try to do the best I can.'' Those interested can purchase raffle tickets for $2 to be entered in the drawing. Milicic said it will stay open for about two months before a winner is chosen. He is also giving away an all-expenses paid trip to an NBA finals game in June. He will host 22 members of the Minnesota chapter of the Batten Disease Support and Research Association in a suite for the season finale on April 13 against Houston. Any money raised during that game will go to families in Minnesota affected by the disease. Milicic won the ring as a little-used rookie on the veteran Pistons and he struggled to assimilate to life in the United States as an 18-year-old, so the sentimental value of the ring isn't great. When asked if it was a tough decision, Milicic said ``no, especially saving the kid's life. A ring is a ring. A ring is going to be around. If that ring can save as many lives as we hope it's going to save, that's unbelievable.'' But the belt? ``The belt was different because the belt was a gift from Rasheed Wallace,'' Milicic said. ``I think he's going to understand. It's going to a great cause.'' 小米粒將拍賣他2004年在活塞拿到的冠軍戒，為罹患貝敦氏症的孩童盡一份心力。貝敦氏症是一種基因紊亂症，大多發生在孩童身上，會導致失明、癲癇、最終死亡。米粒也會將溪蛙給他的冠軍腰帶一起拍賣。米粒跟他老婆曾在報紙上讀到一篇新聞，遠在他的祖國塞爾維亞，有一個家庭正在與這種疾病對抗。出人意料的，最後他幫他們付了35,000美元，讓四個孩子遠赴中國做幹細胞治療。他了解治療費實在太貴，所以米粒試著去募款幫助這些人，直到哪天醫生研究出平價的療法。而他的靈感來自阿泰。 "他做的很棒，我也會試著盡力去做" 米粒說每個有興趣的人可以買一張2元的彩卷，為期兩個月。他也將在4月13號對陣火箭的比賽，邀請22個貝敦氏症研究組織的成員進場看球，而該場比賽募得的資金將用在明尼蘇達患病的孩童身上。當被問到拍賣戒指是不是個艱難的決定，米粒說 "不，特別是可以拯救孩童生命的時候。戒指就只是戒指，若這枚戒指能照我想像中幫助那麼多的人，那就太不可思議了。" 那冠軍腰帶呢？ "腰帶有點不同，那是溪蛙送我的禮物。但我想他會理解的，那是用在偉大的用途" 米粒說 http://tinyurl.com/3zoxm6p -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 219.223.252.31

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