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North Carolina’s native son, Michael Jordan announced on Tuesday that he’s donating $2 million to help with Hurricane relief efforts in his hometown.
Jordan, who was raised in Wilmington, N.C., told the AP “It just hits home. I know all of those places: Wilmington, Fayetteville, Myrtle Beach, New Bern, and Wallace, which is where my father is from. So quite naturally it hits home, and I felt like I had to act in a sense that this is my home.”
In an interview with the Charlotte Observer, Jordan noted that, “This is going to have a huge disruption on people’s lives — not for 10 days, but for years.”
“You gotta take care of home,” he said.
Jordan is a majority owner of the Charlotte Hornets, and played basketball at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before being drafted by the Chicago Bulls in1984.