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‘My passion and vision and purpose in life is helping people’: How the Pacers’ Malcolm Brogdon and others are bringing clean water to East Africa


Ask Malcolm Brogdon a rote basketball question, and his face becomes impassive, his eyes and his intellect dulled. He will provide the interrogator with what he or she needs, a smart answer, a sound byte well-suited for mass consumption.

But get him off to the side and ask about his larger role as a change agent for his foundation, Hoops2O, which provides clean water to arid and impoverished areas of East Africa, and a light shines. Ask him about sleeping in the African bush, the sky a canopy of impossibly bright stars, and he becomes fully engaged, his intellect challenged, his face more expressive.

It’s not that basketball bores Brogdon, the Pacers’ burgeoning point guard and 2017 NBA Rookie of the Year who has helped lead the team to a 21-10 start despite a multitude of injuries, including the continuing absence of Victor Oladipo. But his varied interests beyond the court are what truly excite him. He graduated from the University of Virginia with a master’s…





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