Artest finds purpose in tackling mental-health awareness
updated 08 Sep, 2010
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| Ron Artest is promoting mental-health awareness. |
| That's it. |
| There is no punch line. |
| No big finish, no rim shot, no laugh track. Just the starting small forward of the two-time defending champions visiting a middle school Thursday in the Los Angeles suburb of Montebello to call for passage of federal legislation and encourage students to reach out to a health-care worker if they need. |
| Artest is telling others to get help. Yeah, he knows. He knows he's asking for it. He knows every Internet comedian will jump on this with some crack, mostly behind the anonymity of a screen-name handle, of course. But he doesn't care because shining a light on an urgent topic is more important to him. |
| Here's how more important: |
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