Thunder F Serge Ibaka visits with team broadcaster Brian Davis at a hearing aid clinic in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo. Ibaka is making his annual trip to focus on humanitarian work in his hometown. Over the next two weeks, Ibaka will also promote a clean water initiative, deliver medical equipment to an orphanage and conduct a basketball clinic in the capital city.
BRAZZAVILLE, REPUBLIC OF CONGO -- He was just a boy. His mother dead. His father jailed as a political prisoner during the civil war. The uncles who took him in decided they could not afford to feed him and turned him into the streets to fend for himself.