WATCH: James Harden met with a survivor of the MSU mass shooting who he invited to Sunday's playoff game between the Sixers and Celtics:
After hearing Hao was a big fan of his, Harden and his team reached out to him.
“My team found out about it — the people that work for me,” Harden said. “Things like that, you just sit back and think about real life and things bigger than basketball. I heard that he was a fan of mine, so I wanted to get on that ASAP and just see what I could do. So a couple of people from my team flew up there, were actually in the hospital with him, and brought him some things to kind of cheer him up, make him smile.”Sign up for NBC Philadelphia newsletters.
Harden sent Hao game-worn sneakers, helped pay for his medical bills and spoke with him on FaceTime. Last week, 20-year-old John Hao’s life was changed forever. He was one of the students shot at Michigan State University and was left paralyzed from the waist down. Hao is a huge fan of James Harden, and when Harden heard Hao’s story, he stepped in:
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