Every so often in life you run across people that just get “it”. You can’t always describe, you just know it when you see it.

Fred Hoiberg gets it.

You know the guy could do whatever he wants. He is a guy your guys friends want to be. It might just be physically impossible to hate the guy.

Case in point - Matthew Gamber.

Matthew’s heart isn’t as strong as it should be. The 12-year-old has had 100 surgeries. Fred knows a bit about what Matt is going through and the two have been teaching each other a thing or two.

The Star Tribune has the full story of Matt and Fred.

Anyone taking their eyes off the Target Center court one day last winter might have spotted two basketball junkies in the expensive seats, talking with their hands, rating players, comparing ambitions and ailments.

The man wore the mien and wardrobe of an executive. The boy wearing the Timberwolves jersey could have been his son, but this wasn’t just another night of male bonding.

The man was Timberwolves assistant general manager Fred Hoiberg, who was forced to retire from the NBA because of a heart condition. The boy was Matthew Gamber, 12, a sixth-grader from Brooklyn Park who has clung to life since being born with a variety of life-threatening illnesses, including a growth around his heart. A network of mutual friends brought them together, leading to a few of the best days of Gamber’s life.

It gets better. Click here ot read the whole story. If you can get through the last couple of paragraphs without feeling a pain in you gut, you can go ahead and turn in your membership card to the human race.

First Migeul Tejada was questioned about his age. Well ESPN doesn’t stop there, they go after there own now.