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'Give Hope to the Hopeless': NBA Player Announces He's Donating His ENTIRE Salary This Year to Help Save Lives

Billy Hallowell : Mar 17, 2022  Faithwire.com

"I wanted to make this year about my dad, because my dad spent most of his life making his life about me, my brothers and sisters, and servicing people..." -Bismack Biyombo

[Faithwire.com] NBA star Bismack Biyombo is pledging to donate his entire $1.3 million salary this year to create a hospital in his native Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Screengrab image: via Instagram)

Biyombo, 29, said in a video released by his Bismack Biyombo Foundation that the project will honor his late father, François Biyombo, who died last August.

The Phoenix Suns player, who is a Christian, told his agent he wanted to come to an agreement to play this year that would enable him to advance a positive cause, especially as he initially paused playing basketball and re-evaluated his life and career in the wake of his dad's death.

"While I was trying to figure out how to find something that would motivate me this year, I remember one day, I pick up the phone and called my agent," he said. "And said the only way I would do it this year was if we find a situation—one, that I fit in and two, that I would play for something"... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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