Like that part of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, suburban Ohio kids are showing their support for Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert in the most grassroots of ways. A group of moppets started a lemonade stand to help him pay the $100,000 fine levied by the NBA earlier this week. Don’t laugh: At $50,000 a cup, the only have to sell two.
Actually, the kids, in suburban Rocky River, sold lemonade Thursday at 50 cents a cup. That’ll take a little longer.
Ten-year-old Molly Sponseller says she and her friends wanted to show support for the Cavs and Gilbert. She says he’s “not a bad man.”
After James announced last week that he would leave Cleveland for the Miami Heat, Gilbert wrote a searing letter calling the MVP “narcissistic” and “self-promotional.” The NBA fined Gilbert.
Gilbert has said that instead of sending him money, fans should donate to the Cleveland Cavaliers Youth Fund. That’s where proceeds from the lemonade sales will go.
The lemonade stand sign? Of course it was written in comic sans.
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Kids sell lemonade to back Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert after fine [Cleveland Plain Dealer]
