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Russell Westbrook gives away car after being crowned NBA All-Star MVP
More like Most Charitable Player! NBA All-Star MVP and Oklahoma City Thunder player Russell Westbrook gave away the brand-new Kia he was rewarded after being crowned MVP in February to an unsuspecting single mom on Monday, April 6.
Married since 2010, the actress and her baseball player beau welcomed their first child, Emerson Jay, in May 2013. “I’ve been cruising along. I’ve got a beautiful wife, she’s my best friend, I’ve got a great job and a beautiful home, and now it’s time to be a dad. . . I want her to […]
According to the team’s website, 19-year-old mom of two, Kerstin Gonzalez, was so surprised that she thought it was a joke.
Russell Westbrook brings tears of joy to single mom Kerstin Gonzales, surprising her w/ @Kia he won as All-Star MVP. pic.twitter.com/fijOHTSc4p
“Are they playing a prank on me or something?” Gonzalez said was her initial reaction. “When he showed me the keys, I was like ‘This is real’. That’s when I started to cry because it’s been such a hard time.”
The Jersey Shore alum and her now-husband snapped a selfie in the stands at a Jets game in East Rutherford, New Jersey, in December 2010.
Gonzalez got the surprise of a lifetime while patiently waiting for what she thought was a meeting to start at a Sunbeam Family Services office when she felt the point guard fingers on her back. “There were definitely tears of joy and I could tell some tears of hard work and all the different things she’s been through in her life,” Westbrook said of Gonzalez’s reaction. “Today was a stepping stone in showing her that everything is going to be alright.”
The single mom, who is working hard to graduate from high school with the hopes of studying forensic science at a college, was in dire need of a new car. According to the site, Gonzalez had been borrowing friends cars to get herself to school and get her sons to and from daycare.
“It’s so touching and so amazing knowing that there are people out there willing to help the ones that are in need,” Gonzalez said. “It’s just so wonderful."
