For more than two decades, Nav Bhatia — the Toronto Raptors’ vaunted “Superfan,” who has attended every home game in the team’s history — has been amassing a collection of rare basketball artifacts vast enough to fill a museum. But over the last three years, Bhatia has slowly been dismantling his stockpile piece by piece. “After I turned 65, I started giving [my NBA memorabilia] away to kids who cannot afford it and will cherish it more than anybody else,” says Bhatia, now 68. This generous spirit has also led him to purchase thousands of Raptors tickets for underprivileged youth over the years. He still has the jersey given to him in the 1990s by the Raptors in front of thousands of fans at the SkyDome.

Source: thestar January 10, 2021 10:07 UTC