Growing up in Queens, Hamidou Diallo couldn’t go to basketball camps or travel to learn the game from the best.
Now that Diallo is in the NBA — a bouncy, second-year guard for Oklahoma City — he is determined to give back and do for the kids coming up behind what he wished somebody had done for him.
“Being a kid from Queens, I wanted to come out to a couple of camps: The NBPA camp, my camp that’s [Friday] and my event that I’m having Saturday, which is like a community give-back,” Diallo said. “Being a kid from Queens, I’m trying to give these kids hope and trying to do what I wish someone would’ve done for me when I was in their shoes.