I would be interested in getting your thoughts on this.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/sports/basketball/05family.html?_r=1&ref=basketball&oref=slogin

(hat tip to AverageBro.com)

Here is what I found interesting:

“Jennings, 19, is enjoying providing a better life for them than the one that they had in California. He was born and raised in Compton and had to cope with his father’s suicide. He was 7 or 8 at the time, he said, and had to grow up fast and become the man of the house.

Now Jennings makes $1.2 million a year in salary and endorsements, and the team provides a luxury three-bedroom apartment, a Volvo station wagon and eight round-trip tickets between Rome and the United States.

“To be able to provide for them and buy them nice things, and being able to take care of everything, I feel good about it,” he said of his family.

Knox, 47, stressed that the family wasn’t poor but “working-class people just trying to get by.” She worked in insurance for years and said she was making $15 an hour at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, Calif., before leaving for Italy.

Her family’s life has changed for the better, she said. The dinners at Del Taco and In N Out Burger, two fast-food restaurants in abundance near the family’s Los Angeles home, have been replaced by salmon, chicken and vegetables bought fresh daily at a local market.”

and later in the article:

“Terrence [Jennings’ little brother], 12, may be enjoying the Italian adventure the most.

With a bright smile and quick wit — he taunts Roma guard Allan Ray by calling him Ray Allen, who is a guard for the Boston Celtics.

Jennings’s club agreed to pay Terrence’s tuition at the Marymount International School, which costs about $20,000 a year and whose students represent more than 50 nationalities. Terrence’s sixth grade teacher, Gabriella Spadaro, predicted that he would be president someday.”