Kyrie Irving Donates $40k for Hilton Head Land Battle

Earlier this month movie mogul Tyler Perry vowed to help a 93-year-old grandmother in Hilton Head, SC who was being pressured to sell the land that has been in her family since the Civil War, to unscrupulous developers [click here if you missed that].

NBA player Kyrie Irving joins the fight, donating $40k to the GoFundMe...

From The Daily Mail

Dallas Mavericks star Kyrie Irving has donated $40,000 to a 93-year-old South Carolina woman in her legal battle to protect her family home from an encroaching developer.

Josephine Wright, a long-time resident of South Carolina's picturesque Hilton Head Island, is being sued by Bailey Point Investment Group for allegedly blocking the developer's progress on a 147-unit complex next to her property -- a 1.8-acre plot that was first settled by escaped slaves and has remained in her family since the Civil War. Wright inherited the land in 2012 from her late husband.

The developers have reportedly made offers of up to $39,000 to buy Wright's plot, but when she refused, they began a campaign of harassments that included slashing her tires, throwing trash onto her property and even hanging a snake from her window, she alleges.

'I guess they figured I would become so unnerved with the harassment that I would say take it,' Wright said at a recent press conference. 'But they don't know me. I am here to fight for what I have.'

A gofundme page was started in Wright's name, which is how Irving came to donate $40,000 to her legal efforts. That campaign had raised $248,263 of its $350,000 goal as of Wednesday morning.