During a December game, a Grapevine-Colleyville teacher, who is a Dallas Mavericks season ticket holder, met Dereck Lively II's late mother. Later that month,...
A chance meeting with the mother of the Dallas Mavericks’ rookie connected an elementary teacher with the NBA star.
So in her classroom at Glenhope Elementary in Colleyville, Cohen incorporates what she coined “Mavs Math” to make numbers fun for her students by having them track scores and team stats. Her reputation as the “Mavs teacher” quickly spread across the school — and caught the attention of Mavericks center Dereck Lively II, the team’s rookie star.“They know I love them. They know that for sure,” Lively said of the class at a recent news conference.
It was the start of a close relationship between Lively and the class, which attended a game in February. The students sat on the court during warm-ups, talked to Lively, got autographs and met other players. Cohen, unfortunately, was unable to go because she was traveling for her daughter’s birthday.
After brainstorming in class, they decided to set up a lemonade stand at their school in early April to raise money for UT Southwestern Medical Center’s cancer center in his name. Lively’s mother had been battling cancer since 2013.
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