NBA Vet Visits Local Kids' Home Court To Tout Healthy Habits

Photo courtesy of Barbara Glassman, Citizen Schools.

Basketball is good for your health, kids!

That was part of the message presented to over 50 middle schoolers at the Urban Assembly Unison School in Clinton Hill yesterday — Tuesday, January 20 — by Marty Conlon, a 10-year NBA veteran, who visited the students as part of a “Fit Clinic” to show kids how easy and fun a healthy lifestyle can be.

Lessons included the importance of staying active and eating a nutritious, balanced diet, as well as “fitness-related basketball activities” that taught kids some b-ball skills — something that the school’s basketball team was super enthusiastic about.

The “Fit Clinic” was hosted by nonprofit Citizen Schools, which partners with middle schools to extend the school day for children from low-income communities, through providing a “second shift” of teacher volunteers from Facebook, Google, AOL, and other companies, who offer “academic support, college and career readiness training, and hands-on apprenticeships.”

All equipment used during Unison School’s Fit Clinic has been donated to the school by the NBA.