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NBA star Jrue Holiday pledges to donate entire $25m salary to small businesses – Wide World of Sports
‘How we felt we could make a lasting impact’
NBA star Jrue Holiday has stunned fans with his pledge to donate the entirety of his salary for the 2020 season to black-owned small businesses and nonprofits.
Holiday, who was traded to the Milwaukee Bucks this summer, revealed his pledge in an Instagram post where he said he wanted to help businesses who had been ravaged by COVID-19 this year.
The 30-year-old point guard was scheduled to earn $25,396,111 this season, per Spotrac, and is currently in the penultimate year of a five-year, $131 million…
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