Rondae Hollis-Jefferson surprises his mom with a birthday cake and also a new house (Video)

It’s every NBA draftee’s go-to answer to “what are you going to do with all that money?”

“I’m going to buy my mom a new house.”

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As one should. And Nets rookie Rondae Hollis-Jefferson, along with his brother Rahlir (who plays professionally in Luxembourg) decided to film the presentation. On their mother Rylanda’s birthday, no less:

Rondae, who is penning a weekly diary at the New York Post, described the buildup to the event:

We were searching for the house for a while. My brother, the realtor, my uncle and a couple others were looking at houses and telling me about it, and I thought this one was the perfect fit.

When I told the woman who owned the house why we were buying it, she cried. Being a mom, she understood what it meant more than us guys do. It was an emotional moment, and then she said, “We can make this happen.” They even bought my mom a cake!

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Instead of worrying about where your mom is going, what she’s doing, it puts you at ease knowing she has a place of her own, and that she has somewhere to lay her head at night. It’s pretty special.

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It is. Rookie of the Year, in the early voting, by this count.

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