Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, players Luka Dončić and Dwight Powell donate $500,000 to support childcare for healthcare workers

The Dallas Mavericks are doing their part to combat the coronavirus crisis.

Team owner Mark Cuban, along with All-Star Luka Doncic and big man Dwight Powell have teamed up to donate $500,000 to support healthcare workers that are involved in childcare at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Parkland Hospital.

“We can’t thank our healthcare workers enough for putting their patients’ well-being before their own. I am thankful to Luka and Dwight as we partner up to support healthcare workers who are doing everything they can to keep our community healthy.” said Cuban in a statement.

“We are deeply grateful to the entire Dallas Mavericks organization, and especially to Mark, Dwight and Luka, for their incredible generosity in providing emergency childcare funding benefitting the frontline healthcare workers of UT Southwestern and Parkland,” said Daniel K. Podolsky, MD, president of UT Southwestern. “This will alleviate a tremendous burden faced by so many nurses, physicians, lab technicians and other care team member working nonstop on our COVID-19 response. Having support for childcare will be one less thing they have to worry about.”