Wade’s All-Star Weekend - 2008

BELIEVE IT AND LEAVE IT

New Orleans, LA I February 20, 2008: Miami HEAT guard, Dwyane Wade, made his fourth appearance (third-year starter) at the NBA All-Star Game during the NBA All-Star Weekend in New Orleans, Louisiana. Although the weekend was filled with corporate appearances and All-Star festivities, Wade’s mission was to leave New Orleans a better place than he found it. With that mission in mind, Wade’s overall platform was to promote future preparedness and preventive measures that individuals might take to ensure a level of empowerment and control over an untimely occurrence.

• Dwyane hosted 30 students at the T-Mobile Rookie Game (meet and greet the All-Star) and given survival kits
  
• He distributed “4 Survival To Go 72-hour multipurpose emergency preparedness kits” to more than 60 homes
  
• He hosted an All-Star Brunch with the partnership of Converse and Gatorade, CSMG and others to raise funds to support the Baptist Cross Road Project and Hurricane Katrina victims
  

“Once we knew the All-Star game was going to be in New Orleans, we really wanted to find a way to leave something behind,” Wade said. “One of the main things you can do is give someone a home, and we accomplished that today. Although I’m here to playing the All-Star game, my purpose was to come to New Orleans and be a blessing to as many people as possible, and we’ve done that. I feel whole.”

See what each event entailed: