For the Spirit of the Australian basketball league Santa Claus is 7 feet tall, plays for the Milwaukee Bucks and wears #6.
“After discussing ways to help out his mentor and Spirit coach Rob Beveridge, Bogut has made the first donation to a special bank account established to raise funds for the Sydney club’s players and coaching staff – a tidy $30,000.
It may pale in comparison to what Bogut earns in the US – this week he placed fifth on the BRW top 50 Australian sports earners list with $8.2 million.
But it was still welcome good news for Spirit players who recently took a drastic pay cut in an NBL rescue package to ensure they played out the rest of the season.”
