The foundation’s leadership includes three of the eight Board of Directors seats going to players or NBPA executives, and Temple is supportive of the players having a say in how the funds are allocated. He’s focused on policy changes, particularly education reform, the message he has chosen for the back of his jersey. There is utility in the celebrity of being an NBA player, large or small, and Temple is an advocate of maximizing that opportunity, starting on the local level. “The policy changes, they’re not as far away in terms of the people that can actually can create those policies aren’t as far away — or as distant — as we make them out to be,” said Temple.