If you like to read about sports on the internet, you’ve probably read something that Jim Cavan has written. He has written short riffs about basketball at Grantland and experimental goofiness at The Classical and longform pieces for us here at SB Nation, and articles of various lengths at various other places. He’s a good writer -- loopy and rigorous, funny and astute, and especially gifted at sussing out some grace from the myriad wince-inducing awfulnesses of the New York Knicks.
Let’s help Jim Cavan with his son’s medical bills
Jim Cavan is a good writer and a good dude. His six-month-old son is very sick. Let’s help him out.
Six months ago, Jim and his wife had a son named Rett. In late October, doctors found a large tumor on Rett’s liver; it will require chemotherapy, and other treatments that are both harrowing and very expensive. Jim’s sister-in-law started a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for Rett’s treatment, which you can find here.
It’s not my business or anyone else’s to tell you what to do with your money, so I won’t do that. But I will tell you, quickly, why I made a small donation, and why I hope some of you will decide to do the same.
There is a big reason, and a small one. The smaller one is that I like Jim and I like his work. He is a part of a community of people who care about sports in a particular goofy way, and who write about the strange suite of feelings that results as a way to more fully understand and more wholeheartedly enjoy the greater world, and to help other people do the same. This is a community that, whatever its other issues, supports, cares about, and cares for its own.
The bigger reason to give is that Jim is a part of another, larger community, to which all of us belong: people who worry about the people they love the most, people carrying heavy burdens through dark and unforgiving territory, people who could use a little bit of help sometimes. So: people, then.
Everyone in our family is pulling for everyone in his. You can donate here.
UPDATE: Jim Cavan emailed to say, “Our goal now is only to see my son through this awful ordeal, and pay forward the fantastic love and support in any way we can. Which is why we’re donating every dollar beyond what Rett needs (we have NO idea, at this point) to research / families facing similar fights. Perhaps it’s worth adding that to the post -- if only to reassure people that their contributions will go toward the biggest possible good.” It does seem worth adding.
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