These kids are a cut above!
A Brooklyn Nets player treated dozens of pint-sized basketball fans to free back-to-school haircuts at a Clinton Hill barbershop on Thursday, before sending them home with brand-new supplies — and swag — for the year of learning ahead.
“He gave out book bags with hats, headbands, wrist bands, pencils, rulers, notebooks, and trading cards,” said mom Janice Campbell, whose 5-year-old son James got his ears lowered at the event.
Net Jarrett Allen, who joined the Brooklyn team last year, invited roughly 50 kindergartners to get trims at Levels Barbershop, where stylists shaved tricked-out designs, including stars and Batman and Superman logos, into their tiny heads. Following the cuts, the 6-foot-11-inch athlete joined the students from East New York’s Imagine Me Leadership Charter School for a pizza lunch, regaling them with stories about his rise to National Basketball Association stardom — and signing anything on hand, including napkins and paper plates, according to Levels’s chief barber.
“He talked to them, they asked questions, and whatever the kids wanted him to sign, he signed,” said the shop’s co-owner Denorval Parks. “He was a very good host.”
