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Jillian Alfonso (c.) accepts Black History Month/Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things award for her teacher cousin Tricia Moses, who is recovering from lung transplant surgery, at Barclays Center on Sunday.
Already a Daily News Hometown Hero, a teacher was honored by the Brooklyn Nets on Sunday for putting her students’ reading skills ahead of her own health.
Tricia Moses, who is recovering from lung transplant surgery, was given the Black History Month/Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things award in a Barclays Center ceremony.
“We’re so grateful for the Brooklyn Nets to recognize her,” said Moses’ cousin Jillian Alfonso, 35, who accepted the award for the teacher. “She’s so honored that they would take the time to think of her.”
Moses, 39, a special-needs teacher at Public School 233 in East Flatbush, put off a lifesaving lung transplant last spring to prepare her third-grade students for a high-stakes reading exam.
She had lung transplant surgery two weeks ago and is “doing well,” Alfonso said.
Chelsia Rose Marcius
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