Last summer, before ever suiting up for a professional basketball game, Jarrett Allen hosted a back-to-school haircut event in Brooklyn, paying for haircuts for local kids at Levels Barbershop on Fulton Avenue, a roughly 15-minute walk from Barclays Center.
On Thursday, with a year of the NBA behind him, Allen hosted the event for a second consecutive season, this time to a lot more kids and a lot more meaning.
Forty-five children packed inside of Levels, as did media from several news outlets, like Pix 11, ABC, NY1, News 12, Fox 5 and BQE Media along with Ian Begley of ESPN and Mike Mazzeo
The kids came from two Brooklyn community groups: Children of Promise — dedicated to embracing children of incarcerated parents –- and Imagine Me Leadership Charter School – an all-boys Charter School in East New York.