Bert’s Big Adventure Kid KJ Is The Atlanta Hawks Player Of The Day!
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🗓️ 20 February 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Meet Bert’s Big Adventure kid, KJ!
Despite early challenges after being diagnosed with Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus, KJ is a true fighter who continues to push forward with an inspiring level of independence!
KJ dreams of joining a wheelchair basketball league! Our friends at the Atlanta Hawks are about to make that dream come true because they have some exciting news! The Atlanta Hawks have officially signed KJ to a day-long contract as The Atlanta Hawks Player for the Day!
To celebrate KJ’s perseverance, passion, and unstoppable spirit--the Hawks are going to take care of everything he needs as a new member on the court!
Big thanks to ThirdEye Creative Productions who will be helping behind the scenes make sure the family has a fantastic hotel room downtown with cash for meals, souvenirs and transportation!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, the Bert Show. |
| 0:01.6 | If you have been listening to Burt's Big Adventure over the course of the last 20 years, you know sometimes it's not the parents that run the households. |
| 0:08.9 | It's a two and the three-year-olds. |
| 0:10.1 | I think we got that situation going on here. |
| 0:12.0 | 1,000 percent. |
| 0:12.8 | That is Kai right there. |
| 0:15.3 | Hey, we're going to introduce you guys to KJ here in just one second. |
| 0:18.8 | Mom, Greta and Kari. Dad is here also. |
| 0:21.5 | How are you guys doing? |
| 0:23.0 | Doing good. |
| 0:23.9 | Doing well, thank you. |
| 0:25.0 | Greta, for the record, has been a P1. |
| 0:27.8 | Okay, that needs to be established, all right? |
| 0:30.1 | So we had the fur bus drop all our families off here at the Hilton Atlanta Airport Hotel last night, |
| 0:34.6 | and the first thing she said to me off the bus she's like i'm a p. |
| 0:37.5 | i'm a p.1. I promise you that didn't have anything to do with you getting picked. That was just a |
| 0:43.7 | nice addition. It was. And now you're a burst big adventure. You're part of the births big adventure |
| 0:47.4 | family for life. And by the way, KJ, he's taking himself a little mid-morning snooze. And I'm honestly, I'm kind of jealous because if I had to laugh to curl into you right now, |
| 0:57.0 | I would 1,000% be doing what he's doing right now. |
| 0:59.1 | Same exactly. |
| 1:00.0 | Well, we tell these guys pace themselves throughout the day because it's going to be run, |
| 1:03.5 | run, run, run, run when we get into those parks and dudes taking it seriously. |
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