Official Site of the Pacers · Aug 23, 2015
Bender Testing Vertical Leap in the Business World
Former Pacers player Jonathan Bender listens to a business pitch during The Live Pitch, an event for minority and women-owned small businesses to pitch their ideas to investors to raise capital, in Indianapolis on Friday.You sit there and watch Jonathan Bender moderate a cutting-edge gathering to unite investors and entrepreneurs and you're reminded of the fundamentals.
Don't judge. Don't stereotype. Don't assume.
Here was the Pacers' former first-round draft pick, the 18-year-old stick of potential out of a small-town Mississippi high school, so fresh and innocent that he didn't even have a tattoo (yet), running a meeting for people looking to invest in or build successful businesses.