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Michael Jordan returns home, meets with hurricane victims
WRALTV - AP ^ | 11/20/18 | STEVE REED

Posted on 11/20/2018 8:17:39 PM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt

WILMINGTON, N.C. — Stephanie Parker isn't quite sure how her family of six would have managed the last two months without the help of Michael Jordan and the American Red Cross following Hurricane Florence.

So when Parker met Jordan on Tuesday she couldn't hold back giving the owner of the NBA's Charlotte Hornets a big hug and a thank you.

"It means he hasn't forgotten," Parker told The Associated Press about Jordan's visit to Wilmington, North Carolina. "It means we are important."

Jordan returned to his hometown wearing North Carolina Tar Heels blue and met with some hurricane victims, many of whom have benefited from his $2 million donation in September. Jordan gave $1 million each to the Red Cross and the Foundation for the Carolinas Hurricane Florence Response Fund.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: florence; hurricane; jordan; wilmington
Michael Jordan gives $2 million to hurricane Florence relief efforts after that hurricane devastated his hometown of Wilmington, NC.....and the effects of the hurricane are still being felt bigtime.
1 posted on 11/20/2018 8:17:40 PM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt
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Michael Jordan - the best basketball player of all time and a true class act.


3 posted on 11/20/2018 8:21:31 PM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt
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These millenial clowns saying LeBron James is better than Jordan are smoking crack. Jordan would completely run rings around King James.
4 posted on 11/20/2018 8:44:04 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

You are so right!


5 posted on 11/20/2018 8:51:52 PM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt
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