You may remember that before ever stepping on the court as a member of the Brooklyn Nets in an official NBA game, Allen paid for haircuts and gave away school supplies for children in Brooklyn.
Two months later he took 25 kids Thanksgiving shopping in Queens, a story picked-up by ABC News, ESPN’s Big 12 Network, Fox and CBS among other outlets.
Shortly following that, he was one of several Nets who helped honor the legacy of Nicholas Naquan Heyward Jr, by providing new courts in Gowanus, Brooklyn, near where Heyward was killed at 13-years old.