Basketball President Pat Williams of the Orlando Magic team stops by!
I am happy to by a part of this blog tour for Pump Up Your Book Promotion . My Adoption Story by Vice-President NBA Orlando Magic Pat Williams Imagine a home that spends $80,000 a year on groceries, where the breakfast table is 17 feet long, and where 16 teenagers lived under one roof? That was my home. After having four children of my own, I adopted 14 children from four foreign countries (Romania, South Korea, the Philippines and Brazil) and gained another daughter by remarriage. I am the father of 19 children. My story is both amusing and touching. It’s wild, it’s frenetic, it’s a never-ending stream of broken hearts and proud moments. With children from all over the world and experiences from many different view points, some might say my household may be the quintessential American family—a melting pot of cultures growing together as one. As general manager for the NBA’s Philadelphia 76ers in the 1980s, I had the world at my fingertips. I was at the pinnacle of my career, the top o...