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Jrue Holiday doesn’t want the credit, but he just won the NBA’s Social Justice Award

Jrue Holiday doesn’t like to talk or get publicity for his philanthropic work. And neither does his wife, US soccer Olympian Lauren Holiday.

That’s what Renee King, the founder of Fund Black Founders, told CelticsBlog earlier this year in a conversation about the couple’s social impact work.

“They don’t do it for the fame,” King said. “They don’t do it for the publicity. They shy away — they would prefer not to be in the light at all.”

Still, the work has become so impactful that it couldn’t not be recognized.