{"id":639974,"date":"2010-01-23T18:49:40","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T23:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/my.lakers.com\/blogs\/?p=14558"},"modified":"2010-01-23T18:49:40","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T23:49:40","slug":"farmar-kicks-up-charity-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/639974","title":{"rendered":"Farmar Kicks Up Charity Effort"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"100116jordanfarmar_homedepotcenter\"On Friday evening in New York, Jordan Farmar joined teammate Pau Gasol in donating to the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, which came on top of his previous $2,500 donation to Haiti Relief that resulted from his sinking a 50-foot put earlier in the week.<\/p>\n

But even that wasn’t the first time he’d done charitable work in January, because on the 17th at the Home Depot Center, Farmar (pictured above in the lower center)<\/em> participated in the second annual Mia Hamm and Nomar Garciaparra Celebrity Soccer Challenge. <\/p>\n

The event, which helped raise nearly $200,000 for the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and the Mia Hamm Foundation, was designed to raise funds and awareness primarily for bone marrow disease, to which Hamm’s brother lost his life in 1997.<\/p>\n

Farmar, who shares the same agent as the greatest female soccer player of all time, supported the effort from the sideline in order to ensure his basketball health.<\/p>\n

“Mia and Nomar are great people and it was for a great cause,” he said. “We didn’t have a game that day so I was happy to get out there and support them.”<\/p>\n

Farmar said the highlight of his day came at halftime, when patients suffering from life-threatening diseases such as leukemia and lymphoma were introduced to their bone marrow donors for the first time.<\/p>\n

“It was a lot of fun just being there and especially seeing some of the kids that were there that got helped out by their donors,” Farmar explained. “Just to see how much one person can change another’s life is pretty cool.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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