While the NBA hashed out details of revenue sharing in a Board of Governors meeting Tuesday in Dallas, the owners of the San Antonio Spurs and Memphis Grizzlies were rounding up finances for a different reason.
Michael Heisley (Grizzlies) and Peter Holt (Spurs) have made the largest private donations for an $85 million project, Education Center at The Wall, to honor the 58,000 veterans killed during the Vietnam War, at the Washington, D.C., memorial. They need to raise more for a 2012 groundbreaking.
"We want to create an education center that puts faces to the names on that wall, but also help people understand as less and less people serve in the military what the military has done for the United States," says Holt, a Vietnam vet who contributed $1 million and will match donations from Texas residents.
Heisley has contributed $2.5 million. Holt mentioned that if wasn't for that Richard Jefferson contract, he would have matched Heisley's donation.
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Michael Heisley (Grizzlies) and Peter Holt (Spurs) have made the largest private donations for an $85 million project, Education Center at The Wall, to honor the 58,000 veterans killed during the Vietnam War, at the Washington, D.C., memorial. They need to raise more for a 2012 groundbreaking.
"We want to create an education center that puts faces to the names on that wall, but also help people understand as less and less people serve in the military what the military has done for the United States," says Holt, a Vietnam vet who contributed $1 million and will match donations from Texas residents.
Heisley has contributed $2.5 million. Holt mentioned that if wasn't for that Richard Jefferson contract, he would have matched Heisley's donation.
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/basketball/nba/2011-06-28-spurs-grizzlies-owners-vietnam_n.htm