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Indiegogo Campaign Wants to Help Michael Jordans High School Coach
You know the old fable about how Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team and that unconscionable rejection fueled him to become the greatest NBA player who ever lived? Turns out there's a lot more to that story, according to a Sports Illustrated article from earlier this year.
While Jordan enjoys the life of a business mogul and worldwide sports icon, his old coach Pop Herring isn't doing so well these days. Beset by mental illness and substance abuse problems, he lives in poverty in North Carolina. Now Thomas Lake, the Sports Illustrated writer who shed light on Jordan and Herring's divergent paths this January, is wrapping up an aid campaign via the online crowd…
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