Pro basketball stars & legends volunteered in New Orleans

With the NBA having set up shop in the Crescent City for this weekend's All-Star extravaganza, current stars, legends, WNBA standouts and other celebrities took to the streets, lending a helping hand to assist in building houses, painting schools and planting sod at 10 sites throughout the city as part of the NBA Cares All-Star Day of Service. More than 2,500 others joined the pro basketball players, undeterred by afternoon showers.

It was the largest single-day effort by the NBA, as well as the largest single volunteer effort since Katrina wrecked the region in 2005.