NY Post · Jul 26, 2019
How Hamidou Diallo is giving back before his biggest year yet
Hamidou Diallo plays defense.Growing up in Queens, Hamidou Diallo couldn’t go to basketball camps or travel to learn the game from the best.
Now that Diallo is in the NBA — a bouncy, second-year guard for Oklahoma City — he is determined to give back and do for the kids coming up behind what he wished somebody had done for him.
“Being a kid from Queens, I wanted to come out to a couple of camps: The NBPA camp, my camp that’s [Friday] and my event that I’m having Saturday, which is like a community give-back,” Diallo said. “Being a kid from Queens, I’m trying to give these kids hope and trying to do what I wish someone would’ve done for me when I was in their shoes.”