• The Boston Celtics’ Ricky Davis donates one night at a Ronald McDonald House to a family for every dunk and three-pointer he makes.

• Boston’s Walter McCarty makes countless visits to community centers, schools, hospitals, and charity events.

Boston's Walter McCarty visits schools, hospitals and various charity events. (Brian Babineau/NBAE/Getty Images)

• At every Celtic home game, 34 children get tickets, T-shirts and the chance to hang out with NBA players, all thanks to Paul Pierce and his foundation, The Truth Fund.

• During warm-ups, Chicago’s Tyson Chandler seeks out kids and special needs fans for a friendly conversation and a photo together. He took 30 boys from a group home on a shopping spree. With teammates he hosts 25 kids who get VIP treatment at Bulls home games.

• A young boy with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma had a dream come true when he got to hang out with LeBron James in the Cavs’ locker room, at a shootaround and during a game. In addition, LeBron sent limos to take 25 single moms for spa treatments, gave a whole basketball league worth of kids $50 each for Christmas toys. If that wasn’t enough, this season LeBron has also visited hospitals, distributed Thanksgiving turkeys, co-run a fitness program with Nike, read to kids, donated 23 tickets to every home game, and launched his own foundation.

• The Pistons’ Richard Hamilton runs the Rip Hamilton Basketball Camp as well as sponsoring an all-day, free celebration that more than 3,000 people attend. He bought 350 hams and food baskets, hosted 900 for Thanksgiving, and with teammate Chauncey Billups he gave 40 kids $200 each in holiday money.

• The Indiana Pacers’ Reggie Miller keeps his extensive charitable work private, but he is known to make countless surprise visits to schools, and host young burn victims for movie watching at his private home theater.

• While visiting a young boy in the hospital, the Indiana Pacers’ Jermaine O’Neal coaxed him to leave his wheelchair to take his first few steps after a serious accident. With his teammates, he also managed to get a smile from a young girl who had not spoken or smiled for half a year. He hosts premier high-school basketball players in a tournament at Conseco Fieldhouse, gave more than $25,000 for toys, clothing and electronics for more than 800 children.

Heat point guard Damon Jones, seen here mid-shimmy during Zo's Summer Groove, runs a free basketball camp. (Issac Baldizon/NBAE/Getty Images)

• Miami Heat point guard Damon Jones donates money to afterschool programs, runs a free basketball camp, has cheered on blood donors, donates tickets to every home game and has volunteered at several reading and educational events.

• Heat guard Dwyane Wade gives 10 percent of his income to his church in Chicago, helped the Heat give away more than $3,000 in free books, has visited hospitals and is very active in reading programs. He also hand-delivered Christmas trees to families, and hosts 20 underprivileged children at every home game.

• New Jersey’s Jason Kidd has a foundation that holds clinics and donates needed items to Boys and Girls Clubs. Since 1997 they have hosted 25 children on a shopping spree at a toy store. Jason donates 25 tickets for each home game to youth organizations.

• The Nets' Brian Scalabrine and Jason Collins have both been involved in numerous causes, including Seeds for Peace—a camp that brings together Israeli and Palestinian children.

• Knicks guard Penny Hardaway started a scholarship program, hosts hundreds of kids at an annual holiday party and is a big supporter of the Special Olympics and other programs.

• Knicks guard Allan Houston created a $25,000 annual scholarship program at the University of Tennessee and has worked with mentoring programs.

• Stephon Marbury of the New York Knicks hosts a six-week summer basketball tournament in Brooklyn, with participants receiving prizes like a $1,000 scholarship. He takes more than 50 underprivileged children to a five-night camp in the Poconos, which ends with a weekend pool party at the Marbury family home in Maryland. He’s also involved with Make-A-Wish, Salvation Army and a Wheelchair Classic game.

• Bulls center Dikembe Mutombo is currently building a $14.5 million hospital in Congo’s capital Kinshasa. It will be the nation’s first new fully-equipped medical facility in nearly 30 years. At the opening of a reading and learning center of the Itheung Trust he donated $100,000. He led a contingent of NBA players from Africa at a special camp, and has been involved in immunization programs, reading, and other programs.

• The Philadelphia Sixers’ Samuel Dalembert is the honorary commissioner of the 76ers Latino youth league, has supported the Red Cross in his native Haiti, has walked children home from school as part of School Safety Day, visits hospitals and is involved in Read to Achieve.

• Sixers’ guard Aaron McKie ran a food drive that collected enough food and money to feed 3,500 people. He also hosted 200 people for Thanksgiving dinner, gives away 15 tickets to every Sixers home game, makes many hospital visits and is very involved in the Read to Achieve program.

Detroit's Richard Hamilton runs the Rip Hamilton Basketball Camp in the summer. (Allen Einstein/NBAE/Getty Images)

• Without staff to help him organize his efforts, Eric Snow encourages strong families by supporting father and son duos. In addition to inviting a father and son to every home game, he donates money for every steal and assist to programs that encourage fatherhood. He also holds a basketball clinic for 50 fathers and sons, runs a golf fundraiser, visits hospitals, and participates in the Read to Achieve program.

• The Pistons’ veteran big man Derrick Coleman buys tickets for kids at every home game, runs a coat drive, gave 25 children $400 each for a shopping spree, paid for the refurbishment of a playground in Detroit, sponsors a free summer camp for 245 children over 30 days, visits hospitals and participates in the Read to Achieve program.

• Toronto Raptors guard Vince Carter has an active foundation that works with United Way and other charities. He hosts a well-known Charity All-Star game in the summer, as well as several youth basketball academies, a wheelchair basketball clinic and a golf tournament and fundraiser.

• Raptors guard Jalen Rose started a foundation for parentless children. He works with programs that support single parent families, community kitchens, education and has donated more than 1,000 tickets to needy people this season. Involved in Read to Achieve, he also hosts a high-profile weekend long event for teenagers.

• The Raptors’ Donyell Marshall has his own foundation, gives away 25 tickets to every game, holds an annual basketball camp and is involved in Read to Achieve.

• Wizards forward Antawn Jamison has launched a foundation, a scholarship program and an incentive program that rewarded approximately 200 students in six schools for their hard work. He sponsors a basketball tournament and funds programs to deliver shoes to a homeless shelter, and turkeys to hungry families at Thanksgiving. He recently arrived at a Habitat for Humanity building site with a check for $20,000 to complete work on a home for a needy family.

• Heat center Shaquille O’Neal hosts a charity event that raised more than a half-million dollars for Athletes and Entertainers for Kids. For just about every holiday, he dresses up and distributes presents: Shaq-a-Claus for Christmas, Shaq-a-Bunny for Easter and Thanksgiving Shaq.

• Celtics guard Gary Payton’s foundation offers grants to groups that make lives better for at-risk youth in Washington state and California. He took 50 children shopping at FAO Schwarz for Christmas.