Philadelphia 76ers swingman Tobias Harris cashed out this summer after signing a five-year, $180 million deal to remain in the City of Brotherly Love. Now Harris is putting that money to work.
The former Tennessee Volunteer donated $1 million to nine different childhood literacy foundations back in October, and he appeared on NBA Network to discuss the donation and his motivations to reinvest in the community:
.@tobias31 donated $1 million to 9 different charities involving childhood literacy.
He joined the Warmup to share his motivation behind helping so many people around the community #ThropicThursday pic.twitter.com/SFeHjEQSvZ
— NBA TV (@NBATV) November 21, 2019
Harris explained that he tends to stay active when he is not playing basketball, especially in ways that involve philanthropic work or “expanding” into things that he is passionate about, as he says in the clip.
The 27-year-old said back in October that he hopes to empower the youth to seek opportunities outside of athletics (via Tim Bontemps of ESPN):
“We need our community, we need our city to be behind us,” Harris said. “And we have to empower our city and kids, young kids who look up to us as athletes, as basketball players.
“I want them to also know it's not just what we do on the court, [but] show them there's love that goes right back off the court [by] doing things like this, and letting them know there's a lot of things that I'm really focusing on outside of basketball for our youngsters and our youth and our young up-and-comers in the world.”
Harris is hoping to build on his big 2018-19 season in his first full year with the Sixers. He was averaging 17.4 points, 7.6 rebounds and 3.6 assists through the team's first 14 games.
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