Michael Jordan visits a North Carolina sneaker store that has a community-based mission

Posted Feb 20, 2019
There was an inkling that he’d come, but no one knew for sure. We’re talking, after all, about the greatest basketball player of all time. But Michael Jordan arrived early, with coffee, to sneaker boutique Social Status. There in the Plaza Midwood area of his city, Jordan was greeted by store owner James Whitner, who might be just as important to the local community as MJ. (The Undefeated)

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