hey all,
last night i had the privelidge to meet the great Vlade Divac and his wife Ana... I also had the honor of conducting a charity auction for around 8 of Vlade's possessions for the Ana & Vlade Divac Foundation... they are amazing people and wonderful humanitarians, very generous and they genuinely want to help people in need
http://www.fondacijadivac.org/HOD---Fondacija-Ana-i-Vlade-Divac/2/English.shtml
From the auctions we raised (just from a rough count back in my head) approximately $12,000-$14,000... incredible support from the Serbian community and for a wonderful cause. Some of the items that we sold (all signed by Vlade):
- LA Lakers signed cap $800
- Partizan Belgrade signed jersey $1,900
- Serbia national team signed jersey $2,000
- Signed cartoon caricature 1/1 sketched on the night $400
- Pair of purple & white signed Dada kicks $2,100
- Pair of black & yellow signed Dada kicks $3,600
- Basketball signed by Vlade & Andrew Gaze $1,000
This coupled with tickets sold for the event, donations on the night, raffle money and sponsors tipping in approx $15,000 means that in excess of $40,000 was raised on the night. In sydney the week before they raised $57,000.
I had a blast and I'll forever be thankful for the opportunity to be involved and do my little bit to help... here are photos from the night:
As a result of what I was able to achieve for them last night, I have been invited to a farewell dinner on Monday evening for approximately 50 guests with Vlade and Ana and guests of honor and thanking them for their time here in Australia over the past 2 weeks and the opportunity to help their charity. Absloutely stoked!!
For those of you in Victoria big Vlade is going to be on SEN radio's morning glory with Andy Maher and Andrew Gaze on Monday morning before 9.00am so listen out for that.
P.S. I also got an 8x10 signed by him which i'll put up in a mailday next week
last night i had the privelidge to meet the great Vlade Divac and his wife Ana... I also had the honor of conducting a charity auction for around 8 of Vlade's possessions for the Ana & Vlade Divac Foundation... they are amazing people and wonderful humanitarians, very generous and they genuinely want to help people in need
http://www.fondacijadivac.org/HOD---Fondacija-Ana-i-Vlade-Divac/2/English.shtml
From the auctions we raised (just from a rough count back in my head) approximately $12,000-$14,000... incredible support from the Serbian community and for a wonderful cause. Some of the items that we sold (all signed by Vlade):
- LA Lakers signed cap $800
- Partizan Belgrade signed jersey $1,900
- Serbia national team signed jersey $2,000
- Signed cartoon caricature 1/1 sketched on the night $400
- Pair of purple & white signed Dada kicks $2,100
- Pair of black & yellow signed Dada kicks $3,600
- Basketball signed by Vlade & Andrew Gaze $1,000
This coupled with tickets sold for the event, donations on the night, raffle money and sponsors tipping in approx $15,000 means that in excess of $40,000 was raised on the night. In sydney the week before they raised $57,000.
I had a blast and I'll forever be thankful for the opportunity to be involved and do my little bit to help... here are photos from the night:
As a result of what I was able to achieve for them last night, I have been invited to a farewell dinner on Monday evening for approximately 50 guests with Vlade and Ana and guests of honor and thanking them for their time here in Australia over the past 2 weeks and the opportunity to help their charity. Absloutely stoked!!
For those of you in Victoria big Vlade is going to be on SEN radio's morning glory with Andy Maher and Andrew Gaze on Monday morning before 9.00am so listen out for that.
P.S. I also got an 8x10 signed by him which i'll put up in a mailday next week
Vlade is one of my favourite players of all time.
Great to see athletes put back into the global community through charity work 
