John Starks has message for kids: Read to achieve
Former New York Knicks star John Starks came to the Brooklyn Public Library’s Gravesend branch with an important message for kids about how reading fuels the imagination.
Joined by state Sen. Marty Golden (R-C-Bay Ridge-southern Brooklyn), the retired shooting recently ppeared at the library at 303 Avenue X as part of a program called the Cablevision Power to Learn Knicks Read to Achieve, summer reading initiative. The program is jointly sponsored by Cablevision, Kia Motors and the New York Knicks.
Starks, who now heads the Knicks’s Alumni Relations and Fan Development programs, read aloud from the book “Hoop Genius: How a Desperate Teacher and a Rowdy Gym Class Invented Basketball” by John Coy.