Taj Gibson is in town this weekend for both the Timberwolves’ game Friday afternoon and Thanksgiving. Brooklyn, specifically Fort Greene, is home and the 33-year-old who grew up in the projects has never stopped being from the neighborhood.
He wears No. 67 to honor his elementary school, P.S. 67, and his uses his non-profit, 67 Enterprises, to help hold the community and school together.
As he told former Nets beat writer Mike Mazzeo, writing for CloseUp360...
“I run basketball tournaments in the Ingersoll Community Center all year around.