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    Charlotte Hornets’ Marvin Williams at the holiday shopping spree.
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    Charlotte Hornets’ Tony Parker at the holiday shopping spree.
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    Charlotte Hornets’ Miles Bridges at the holiday shopping spree.
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    Charlotte Hornets’ Miles Bridges at the holiday shopping spree.
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    Charlotte Hornets’ Michael Kidd-Gilchrist at the holiday shopping spree.
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    Charlotte Hornets’ Nic Batum at the holiday shopping spree.
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    Nic-Batum-Hornets-shopping2
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In preparation for the holidays, Charlotte Hornets players took 15 middle school students on a shopping spree at Walmart in east Charlotte. Students from Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School received $300 Walmart gift cards to pick out whatever they wanted in the store.

Katrina covers Charlotte's Black business scene for QCity Metro. She's a Miami transplant, pescatarian and lover of the arts. She earned a public relations degree from the University of Florida. Got a...