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Kyrie Irving has made several charitable donations since the Mavericks acquired the guard at the trade deadline last season. Add the Little Miss Flint Clean Water Fund to the philanthropic star’s list. Irving donated $50,000 to the fundraiser organized by Mari Copeny, a 12-year-old from Flint, MI., according to GoFundMe.
NBA star Kyrie Irving has made a donation of $50,000 to the Little Miss Flint Water Fund, according to GoFundMe. The fund has helped Little Miss Flint Mari Copeny deliver millions of bottles of water to Flint resident.
Harden said members of his team heard about Hao's situation, so a couple of them went to visit Hao at Sparrow Hospital, where he remains after the shooting. Harden sent sneakers, including a game-worn pair, donated to Hao's GoFundMe and called him on FaceTime to offer him some encouraging words. "I love when you're smiling," Harden said on the call, a video of which was shown on "NBA Today" on Thursday. "I love when you're smiling, all right? I'm with you. I know it's tough right now, but you have to stay physically strong, you know what I mean? You just got to think positive things and keep pushing and fighting. I got you. I got some guys for you, too. I got some things coming your way, hopefully give you some encouragement and make you smile a little bit, you know what I mean? Let me know if you need anything else."
One donation in particular stands out — $22,000 under the name Kyrie Irving, the famous Brooklyn Nets basketball player. The player has a history of donating identical amounts to various GoFundMe campaigns across the country.
Just days after it was revealed that Kyrie Irving had given $300,000 to five GoFundMe appeals, there’s a yet another example of the Nets guard’s generosity. Irving is listed as giving another $15,000 to a GoFundMe appeal for a Long Island man who lost his home — a small cottage in Southhampton — to a fire. Irving’s gift, provided four days ago, matched the GoFundMe goal set up by friends of Joseph Cassone who among other things runs an annual musical festival called Bradstock on the east end of the island.
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Just days after it was revealed that Kyrie Irving had given $22,000 to a Howard University student’s GoFundMe, permitting her to complete her studies at the HSCU school, a Montana newspaper reports that Irving gave $50,000 to another GoFundMe that will permit a childcare center to continue operating in the Treasure State.
Additionally, Kings guard Buddy Hield, a native of the Bahamas, has donated $100,000 to the Buddy Hield Foundation and started a GoFundMe campaign with a goal of raising $1 million to further help Bahamians in need.
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