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Nets Kris Humphries and Deron Williams Surprise Students at Bed-Stuy HS

Nets players are greeted with screams and cheers by students at the Brooklyn High School for Leadership and Community Service

A trio of Nets basketball players—All-Star reserve Deron Williams, Kris Humphries and DeShawn Stevenson—visited the Monday afternoon to lead a basketball clinic for 100 of the school's students.

The players stayed for about 45 minutes to practice a few pre-game exercises with some of the school's own basketball players.

Brooklyn High School for Leadership and Community Service is a transition high school for students who are striving to improve their lives with support from their teachers and others.

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The members of the soon-to-be-Brooklyn Nets ended their visit with a slam-dunk challenge: each of the high school players got a chance to dunk and if they missed, had to do ten push-ups. If they made it, the three Nets players had to do ten push ups.

Sure enough, the third student to try made a slam dunk. And Williams, Humphries and Stevenson dropped down and gave ten push-ups, to ecstatic yelps and whoops.

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The quick defeat must have been their cue to leave, because not long afterward, they autographed t-shirts and basketballs, and were out of the door.

Rest assured, Humphries, Stevenson and Williams just made at least 100 new fans. And for that lucky student who managed to squeeze a collective 30 pushups out of three players, it was a day he will remember always.

The event was in coordination with Brooklyn Community Services, and prior to the basketball clinic, Nets employees offered the students career counseling and leadership advice.


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