Warriors’ Festus Ezeli foots the bill for Thanksgiving feast

Warriors' Festus Ezeli foots the bill for Thanksgiving feast The center has started 10 games during the Warriors' franchise-best, 11-0 start, and the 26-year-old is averaging career highs in points (8.7), rebounds (5.7), assists (1.2), steals (0.4), blocked shots (1.5) and field-goal percentage (57.4). Thanksgiving is a time for being grateful and thankful, but I also feel it's a time for me to give back. For the third straight season, Ezeli catered a holiday meal and stood beside other YMCA volunteers in serving about 200 members of the Bayview community. If that wasn't enough, Ezeli also sent families home with grocery bags filled with turkey and all the trimmings. "I just fell in love with the kids, and I think that's one of my purposes here: to help mold young minds," Ezeli said. … After starting 41 games as a rookie, Ezeli had offseason surgery to reinforce both the medial collateral and posterior cruciate ligaments in his right knee. The procedure cost him the entire 2013-14 season, which he spent doing arduous rehabilitation apart from the team. Even last season, Ezeli didn't often look like his explosive self until the playoffs, when he scored 10 points in 11...