Rasheed Wallace drove truck filled with cases of water to Flint
Rasheed Wallace is a Philadelphia native who now resides in North Carolina (where he went to college), but he'll always be tied to the state of Michigan through his playing days with the Detroit Pistons.
Wallace played five seasons in Detroit, helped the Pistons to the 2003-04 championship and 2004-05 finals, joined the team's coaching staff for the 2013-14 season, and owned a house in the Detroit suburb of Rochester Hills for over a decade.
In the midst of a state of emergency in Flint, Mich., where the lead-contaminated water supply has coincided with at least 87 reported cases of Legionnaires' disease, Wallace was ready to do his part.
According to UNC's basketball program, Wallace drove from North Carolina to Flint on Thursday in a truck filled with cases of filtered water. That's estimated to be about 700 miles, meaning a 10-11-hour drive.
In late January, Pistons owner and Flint native Tom Gores pledged to raise $10 million for the relief effort in his hometown, with current Pistons players chipping in $500,000.
- With h/t to Sporting News