awesome

Incidentally, my birthday falls on the next Saturday Caron Butler isn't busy. See you guys there.

Do you think other teams/players do this?

With Caron doing this and Agent 0 doing what he does, the Wizards seems like the coolest, fan-friendliest team in the league.

Are they really head-and-shoulder more awesome than everyone else in the league, or does Mr. Steinberg just make them seem that way by finding little stories like this.

What a pleasant uplifting story as I watch the evening news and all the inhumanity the middle east seems to offer us. Caron seems to be a real gentleman; we should all cheer his good deed. Hopefull next May he'll be preoccupied with the playoffs.

That is just amazing to me. Way to go, Caron!

Congrats to the Lakers on trading a class act like Caron Butler for a no-talent slacker like Kwame Brown. Wiz fans should be proud of him.

wow, caron is the man. i hope him and the wizards get a title one day, boston loves good basketball and class act's and he is clearly both. what a cool dude he is, him and agent zero and jamison as well are all mad good and cool as hell, that is so awesome he is the man.

I can't imagine someone like Kobe doing this. But Caron? Not surprising in the least.

nice story & all, but come on ...
he didn't vist some poor/sick/starving child. he drove down the street (in his super rich neighborhood) to another super rich persons house for a vist. wealthy people hanging out with wealthy people don't exactly make for my idea of uplifting stories. maybe if he visited someone in DC's ghettos then i'd be like "wow, how great."

Fair enough WTF.Good point.But Gil did do something like that, he went and played pickup somewhere in Maryland and hung out with everyone on the streets afterwards, signing atuographs, you should check out the youtube clip if you haven't already, it was awesome.
And Kobe probably would do it, as you can see it's really good for PR...

damn! caron's moving out the neighborhood? now i won't get a chance to stalk..... err, meet him... ;-)
guess coach hubbard will have to do...

WTF:

Evidently, you don't know very much about Caron's background...

Caron Butler has always been a class act. And I think we need to also acknowlege this wife being so down to earth to just open the door and be like "one second." Behind every good guy there is a good woman giving him the right support to stay grounded. NBA guys are typically nice in the beginning, but it's pretty clear what Caron has gone through plus having a strong support system just adds to the great qualities he always has had within him. Wizards need to take some of their Arenas marketing money and start getting the word out more about CB3.

Ua know, I'm normally a fairly cynical guy, but this is one situation to just plain shelve the cynicism and revel in the fact that we have one of the best guys in the entire NBA on our team. That is just incredible.

I think it helps that Carron is a bit older than alot of other guys in the league and that he's married with a family. His wife seems like a great person to.

I can't imagine what it mus tbe like to be going to a friend's birthday party and having an NBA all-star show up to hang out in the basement for a bit. Just amazing.

Although being from cleveland and a cavs fan, Caron is one of my favorites now.

Caron was just hungry and wanted that cake.

nah, classy guy...well played Tuff Juice!

As if that wasn't good enough, Abe Pollin baked him a cake with a naked Brenda Todd Haywood inside.

Wow Caron never ceases to amaze me. It is one of the worst decisions my franchise (the lakers) made letting him go. He is a great basketball player and an even better person.

Caron is awesome, as always. It's really great to have people here that we can root for not just because of their accomplishments on the court but also because of what awesome human beings they are. We truly are blessed. BTW, for you other Wiz fans, there is a new Wizards message board dedicated solely to the Wiz. It's just starting up but the guy who put it together has done an amazing job. We're hoping it turns into something big; a place where all fans can go to discuss their favorite basketball team. Check it out: www.wizardsextreme.com

WTF, you're just assuming that the family's house that he went to was in fact wealthy. the article states that it was the bday boy's cousin that lives down the street from him, not the bday boy himself.

tb- uh, those pictures seem to indicate that he's from a wealthy family. not that there's anything wrong with it...

All remember what happens when Kwame sees birthday cake, right?
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2733976

we must thank the lakers. first for the most lopsided trade in history by trading shaq for caron and odom, and then in an almost hysterical way, trading class act caron for kwame. thank LA. teams like yours so devoted to making all other teams around you better. thank you

we must thank the lakers. first for the most lopsided trade in history by trading shaq for caron and odom, and then in an almost hysterical way, trading class act caron for kwame. thank LA. teams like yours so devoted to making all other teams around you better. thank you

yeah, helives only 2 miles away from me . great story Dan.

It does not matter whether the young man Caron surprised was black or white, rich or poor, sick or healthy, the bottom line is, Caron didn't have to do what he did. Besides, everyone has dreams, not just sick or poor kids! Caron is a class act and his actions show it. I think it was a great thing to do and I am glad that we have such good hearted young men representing the Wizards and they do the things they do from the goodness in their hearts and not for publicity. I have loved Caron from the moment he stepped on the court as a Wizard and this is one of the many reasons that I do.

It does not matter whether the young man Caron surprised was black or white, rich or poor, sick or healthy, the bottom line is, Caron didn't have to do what he did. Besides, everyone has dreams, not just sick or poor kids! Caron is a class act and his actions show it. I think it was a great thing to do and I am glad that we have such good hearted young men representing the Wizards and they do the things they do from the goodness in their hearts and not for publicity. I have loved Caron from the moment he stepped on the court as a Wizard and this is one of the many reasons that I do.

It does not matter whether the young man Caron surprised was black or white, rich or poor, sick or healthy, the bottom line is, Caron didn't have to do what he did. Besides, everyone has dreams, not just sick or poor kids! Caron is a class act and his actions show it. I think it was a great thing to do and I am glad that we have such good hearted young men representing the Wizards and they do the things they do from the goodness in their hearts and not for publicity. I have loved Caron from the moment he stepped on the court as a Wizard and this is one of the many reasons that I do.

I used to play in the same rec league as a friend (or relative?) of Caron's and he Andray Blatche would come watch the games and cheer him on almost every week. He just sat on the sidelines in a plastic chair like everyone else. Andray would sometimes shoot around with us at half-time and in between games. It's great for the area to have stars who really see themselves as part of the community.

Is Lindsay Czarniak single? And can someone hook a brother up with her phone number? Wow!

thats awesome, it seems all we see is negativity and thugs from the NBA, we know there is more , but it's nice to see the good that sports, and basketball can do for someone, and especially because when Caron was in 10 grade we was put in Juv and has made a living playing sports and now he gives so much back to others, its cool

It just amases me how grown adults still look up to and expect so much from professional athletes. And are so judgemental of them. If anyone of us take the time to give back a little something to the world or even your own community in some way. The world would be so much more beautiful. You do not need a whole lot of money to make a difference. I think the young man would of had just as good a time that day if only friends and family show up. Stop worshipping pro athletes. What Cameron did was nice. But don't put to much into it. All that really matters is that the young mans family made a effort to help make his birthday a memorial day.

awesome but it would be even better if gil showed up

Awesome story. One of the posts asked whether other athletes do this stuff, and I thought of Chad Johnson. I live in Cincy and you always hear about him pulling kids aside at the mall and buying them new shoes or a PS2 or something like that. Athletes that take the time to do that stuff are great.