Michael Jordan becomes Nascar team owner with Bubba Wallace as driver
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Bulls legend already owns NBA’s Charlotte Hornets
Pair will be high-profile team of Black owner and driver
Denny Hamlin has joined Charlotte Hornets owner Michael Jordan to form a Nascar team with Bubba Wallace as the driver, a high-profile pairing of a Black majority team owner and the only Black driver at Nascar’s top level.
The partnership was announced on Monday night in coordinated social media posts by Jordan and Hamlin, with Wallace adding his own comment. The posts showed a picture of Jordan alongside a firesuit-clad Hamlin in a motorhome at a race track. Continue reading...