Asking for charity hits a strange nerve. Asking for donations hits another one. I sit here trying to pull together the right words, the kind that spark something inside you, the kind that push past your instinct to hold on to your hard-earned money. We are talking about paying for something you cannot hold in your hand. You cannot frame it on a wall. You cannot tuck it in a drawer.
Dave King’s Bright Side Night leans into that mystery. It asks you to give so a moment can exist for someone else. A moment you will never witness. A moment they will remember long after the final buzzer. You will never know their name. You will never know what your donation meant when it hit them in a way only a kid can feel.
Give an underprivileged child the chance to experience a Suns game.
[Donate](https://www.nba.com/suns/brightside)
I think about what basketball has been for me, and it becomes easy to click a link. The game has lived in my life for as long as I can remember. My first memories are of watching players move in ways I knew my body would never match. The art of it hooked me. The glide of a jumper. The force of a dunk. The way a player slips through a defense and rises toward a rim that hangs there like a dare. It is beautiful. It has shaped me in more ways than I can count.
So if I can share that feeling, even a small slice of it, with someone who has never had the chance to step into an arena with all that noise and color and sensory overload, I will do it.
This is not about me. This is about a kid who might never walk through the doors of the Mortgage Matchup Center on their own. There is power there, quiet but real. Maybe someday someone who went because of a donation made through this community will grow up and write about this team. Maybe they will sit in my seat, pouring their love of the Suns into the screen for the next generation of fans. That is the spirit of paying it forward.
So that is what I am asking. Pay it forward. Send a kid who has not been given that chance to see the Phoenix Suns face the Brooklyn Nets on Tuesday, January 27. Let them feel something close to what you felt when basketball first got its hooks in you.
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* [Dave King's Bright Side Night](/suns-bright-side-night)