58歲的丹利工作時常要吹哨子，這是他在職籃15年的生涯中，最熟悉的聲音。身高196公分的丹利，高中時期就表現出色，大學兩度入選美國最佳球隊名單，最擅長籃下單打，1992年宣布退休時，留下2萬3177點的生涯積分。他在NBA時年薪120萬美元，但現在當導護年薪不到1萬5千美元。只有新台幣44萬多。事實上丹利的朋友說，生活節儉的他仍擁有7位數的存款，因此做這份工作並不是為了錢。
過去當球員時，丹利張開雙臂阻止對手進攻，現在的他用雙臂幫學童們擋車。
丹利表示往後的20年，他都會堅守現在的崗位。繼續守護這條斑馬線。因為這是他這一生做過最棒的工作。
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ABC的新聞，公視轉報導，美國「導護」是一份工作，年薪約新台幣44萬多元，我在想是哪個單位付這份工作的薪水。
Adrian Dantley, NBA Hall of Famer, loves being a school crossing guard in Silver Spring
By Jenny Doren
March 20, 2013 - 11:40 pm
An NBA Hall of Famer is scoring a new batch of fans as a school crossing guard.
Adrian Dantley is off the court and on the streets of Silver Spring in an unusual career change.
Dantley says he isn't directing traffic for the money or as a publicity stunt. He's doing it for the love of his hometown.
In the middle of the street, outside New Hampshire Estates Elementary School is a 6-foot-5 NBA great turned crossing guard for an hour every school day...
"I think the previous crossing guard was a short person, so they just kept looking at me," Dantley says.
"He's awesome," says Kadian Roofe, who lives across the street. "Every time I see him, he always has a nice smile and he's very polite."
Dantley, 58, spent 15 seasons in the NBA. The D.C. native was a standout at Dematha Catholic High School and an All American at Notre Dame.
"First of all, it's not beneath me to be a crossing guard," Dantley says. "I think that's what the big hoopla is about. 'Like, holy cow, what is he doing being a crossing guard? He must be broke or having hard times.' That's not the case at all. I just like what i'm doing."
And parents watching what he's doing say he's scoring big points these days with them, too.
"A lot of these kids, they don't have certain role models or if they do have role models, they think they're unreachable and to say that my crossing guard once played professional basketball and he's right here with me, that's great. That's awesome," Demetrice Roofe says.
Dantley said the other crossing guards teased him when he started, saying he wouldn't last a month, especially in the winter.
He plans on keeping his job for the next 20 years. Among the perks, he no longer has to pay for health insurance out of his own pocket.
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Former NBA Star Adrian Dantley Works As ... A Crossing Guard
By AOL Jobs Staff
Posted Mar 20th 2013 @ 8:52AM
Former NBA star Adrian Dantley has probably made one of the most dramatic career changes among his friends: The Hall of Famer is a Maryland crossing guard, earning just $14,000 a year.
Radio station WTOP in Washington, D.C., reports that Dantley a former star for the Utah Jazz and Detroit Pistons, started working as a crossing guard in September. He works an hour a day at Eastern Middle School and New Hampshire Estates Elementary School in Silver Spring, Md.
It's not because he's broke, either. According to the sports site, Deadspin, Dantley -- an Olympic athlete and former NBA guard-forward -- wanted the medical benefits. Dantley, 58, still lives in the home he purchased for $1.1 million in 1990 and was known for being a penny-pincher, according to Deadspin, but the NBA apparently doesn't provide its former athletes with medical benefits. "He's not just going to sit around," a Dantley "associate" tells Deadspin, "and he just doesn't want to pay health insurance."
Ths 6-foot-5 Dantley grew up in the area and has said that he also would like to have have something to do. Montgomery County civil service records show that he gets paid $14,685.50 a year. Dantley says that he enjoys giving the young children high fives and encouragement. "It's pretty fun, especially with the little ones," he tells WTOP.com.
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