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Twice each season, he would fly 10 participants and their chaperones to Los Angeles and provide them with hotel accommodations, tickets to a Lakers game, and a visit to Disneyland. Devean served as a positive example to these children and inspired them to continue to excel in life.

He continued his charitable involvement upon arriving in Dallas. As a member of the Mavericks organization, he gave his time and funds to Buckner International, an organization which provides material and personal support to children who find themselves in harmful settings such as orphanages, impoverished households, and violent or abusive environments.

Coming back home from the cities I was playing in every year and just seeing the neighborhood get worse and worse. No resources being put into the community. More and more buildings boarded up. More and more restaurants that I like to go to have closed down. More crime. Seeing how people were living. All of that combined into why I wanted to do this and start building affordable housing through my nonprofit and help families and kids in the neighborhood, because it seemed like nothing was being done.

The importance to me is really to change the narrative. Why do you emphasize bringing in some tenants with criminal backgrounds? We have quite a lot of applicants that have some sort of a background. Part of the problem is people who have had incarceration in their background, the cycle just keeps going on and on.

Part of the problem is not giving some of these people a chance at a job or at a place to live. I get in there and talk to people about their record. Vikings Insider: 'This team fights,' says coach Mike Zimmer. Scoggins: Gophers burned by Fleck's conservative approach, Morgan's misfires.

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