From the height of his playing days as an All-Star shooting guard for the New York Knicks, John Starks has been deeply involved in charity work.

Starks, who attended four colleges in four years and went undrafted, knows how difficult it is to find tuition money. This led him to establish the John Starks Foundation in 1994, providing scholarships to high school seniors in the tri-state area and his hometown of Tulsa, OK.

When the Garden of Dreams Foundation was formed in 2006, Starks jumped at the chance to become a board member.

“It's kind of instilled in me at a young age,” Starks told amNewYork. “And so when I got in position, obviously, being a popular player, I said, ‘You know what, let me see what I wanted to do in order to help people.’”

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