Just as he did last year, Gilbert will once again be “scoring for schools” this year. Gilbert held a live lottery at the Verizon center where students and teachers of many of the schools attended. Gilbert pledged to donate $100 for every point he scores during home games while the Wizards owner will match it for away games giving 82 lucky schools some much needed donations. But for those schools who stayed at the lottery and weren’t picked, they didn’t go away empty handed. For those 62 schools, Gilbert gave each of them a $1000 consolation prize.

The Washington Post has more of the story including a great answer by Gilbert:

“What inspired you to start shooting for money?” Arenas was asked yesterday afternoon by a quiet boy who had printed his question in pencil on lined notebook paper.

“Because,” the 6-foot-4 ball player answered gently, leaning forward toward the boy, who was about half of Arenas’s height, “I always dreamed of a player doing it for my school.”

The Wizards official site has the schedule and will have updated results of the total amount of points and money donated. Last year, Gilbert raised over $215,000 for Washington DC schools.