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May 13, 2011With the Cavaliers having two lottery selections in the upcoming draft, Nick Gilbert, the 14-year-old son of the team’s principle owner Dan Gilbert, will be representing the Wine and Gold at next week’s lottery.
Nick Gilbert’s representation will be two-fold as he will be there in support of his father’s team, but will also be serving as the Ambassador for Children’s Tumor Foundation (CTF). Born with Neurofibromatosis (NF) – a disease suffered by 1 in every 3,000 children which allows tumors to merely grow anywhere at any time – Nick has endured brain surgery, chemothereapy, and has lost vision in one of his eyes. As luck would have it, May 17th is also World NF Awareness Day.
Taking a page out of his father’s book, Nick will be using Twitter (@CavsNick) throughout the evening, chronicling the festivities where the team which he will represent has a 22.7 percent chance at landing the first-overall selection.
Back stage at the event will be Dan Gilbert as well as minority owner Jeff Cohen who will observe the actual ping-pong ball pulling process.
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I feel bad booing the decision to use a 14yo who is representing a Children’s Tumor Foundation, but the only reason he is there better be because Joe Tait politely declined.
@1: you from Philly, by any chance?
sound pretty cool to me. well done @cavsdan .
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What, no Usher? Danny boys vow to win a title before you know who ain’t lookin’ to good.
Does anyone know whether it’s NF1 or NF2 that he has?
@Mgbode: Honestly, if I was the Cavs, I would certainly offer it to Joe Tait, even if I knew full well that the most storied person in Cavaliers history would politely decline. And if you were the Cavs, you would kind of guess he would probably say ‘No thanks’ after how weary he sounded calling games at the end of his career with the “Inmates running the asylum”, in his own words.
The whole thing with it being on the awareness day for his son’s disease and all seems like the sort of thing they probably thought of a while ago, but you gotta show deference to a guy like Joe. He’s like a Herb Score or Bob Feller were to the Indians organization.
Sadly, I think with the way LeBron and Co. ran amok for the last 7 years of Tait’s career, he may put some more distance between himself and the game/organization. I would be a bit jaded too if some punk kid spent 7 years paying lip service to the town/team I had broadcast for for 33 years, never once spoke to me, treated me like some nobody, then just straight dissed the town/team. Sort of leaves an ‘I told you so’ taste in your mouth.
Maybe things will all be rosy between the Cavs and Joe, but this is certainly a classy sort of thing for the owner to do, not really a ‘shameless self-promotion’ sort of thing, and I like it. Hope Nick Gilbert’s a happy camper too. I sure would be.
@Shamrock How those Celtics doing?
I don’t think they needed to offer this to Tait – “hey, want to go stand around so we can look good for offering you the opportunity to watch a bunch of balls twirl around/envelopes drawn? I’m sure you’ll find it super exciting!”
Getting some awareness for a good cause is a much better idea, IMO, and it’s on the news already so it worked.
I just realized a nice point: If the Clippers are super-cursed, too, then it would be only fitting if that pick ended up a lottery pick that they could have paired with Blake Griffin (like Irving). So maybe we’ll get lucky. 🙂
I think Gilbert is trying to guilt-trip the NBA into giving the Cavs the first pick
Stern – “Well, the Nets won the lottery, but aww hell, the kid’s got cancer. Lets just switch these envelopes. OK… there we go, all better”
Well consider the awareness issue working… I’ve never heard of that disease & can’t imagine what’d it would be like to go through that.
Glad Nick gets to go & hopefully during the lottery they run a little ad or something to raise awareness even more.
@Sham – the Heat ain’t won nothin’ yet! Anything less than the title = failure.
By the way, weren’t all the “experts” last year predicting a title for the Cav’s and stating they were the best team? Now, all of a sudden, LeQuit had to leave to go to a team with enough talent to win. Talk about revising history. When was the last time the star of a team that won the most games in its’ league for 2 years left in order to find a team that could win?
I guess Joey Haden and Cribbs will be there as well. I’d rather Gilbert send Nick to raise awareness than send Joe Tait.
Good job Danny! I would have preferred AC because I’m 100% positive he’d break down in tears of we got 1&2.