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Jrue and Lauren Holiday using $5 million NBA bubble salary to start social justice fund

Jrue Holiday and his wife, Lauren, have decided to dedicate Holiday’s NBA bubble salary to starting a social justice fund aimed at supporting and continuing the Black Lives Matter movement.

The New Orleans Pelicans guard told ESPN on Wednesday that he and Lauren, a retired USWNT soccer player, are starting the Jrue and Lauren Holiday Social Justice Impact Fund, and using his remaining NBA bubble paychecks — which the NBPA estimates could be as much as $5.3 million — to do it.

The fund will focus on three cities: New Orleans, Indianapolis, and Los Angeles.