Million Dollaz Worth Of Game - Million Dollaz Daily: MICHAEL B. JORDAN ON HBCUs

Episode Date: October 25, 2025

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Hey, million dollars worth of game listeners. You can find every episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. Prime members can listen, ad free on Amazon Music. Right. Right now, shout out to the HBCUs. Yep. You heavy, you heavily involved. And I want to shout out to Jackson State.

Shout out to everything that Deion did for Jackson State. Yes, he was down there. It was major. Turned it all way up. Now, why is your heart there so much? Explain that. I mean, my brother went to HBCU. I grew up around HBCUs, you know, going down to the homecomings.

I understand what that culture and that community means to like, you know, our community and us, you know what I'm saying? And for me, it was like the challenge of how do I take HBCUs and put them on a platform that's going to give these college athletes a look that they normally wouldn't get, you know what I'm saying? Like, you know, you have all these, like, you know, we have the best talent. Yes. Why are we always going to these other, you know, these.

other Division I schools instead of going back into, you know what I'm saying, the HBCU community, because we can change the whole structure of it, really create a real alumni system so we can actually start having the facility and the funds, you know what I'm saying, to be able to recruit the way we need to and be able to have the facilities that, you know, kids from high school actually want to end up at a Howard or a Hampton for, you know, athletic means, you know what I'm saying? And then so having like, you know, having that was, was, was, in another reason why I thought of it, because I was, honestly, I was watching the Maui Invitational. I was watching Maui invitation and I was like, man, I wonder how many, like, you know, black colleges, like, get a chance to travel outside of the country and playing games like this, you know what the gift packets are looking like, I understand, like, oh, you know, when they get the Maui, they get in the bags and then the winner gets this and that and all the funds go back to the school.

I'm like, damn, why don't we have anything like that, you know, so I was trying to start small, you know what I'm saying? And then start to build some momentum so ultimately we can have our own invitation. We can have our own tournament, you know what I'm saying? It just came from trying to be disruptive, you know what I'm saying, in a positive way. you know what I mean and and finding my way through it's slowly evolving i ain't got it all figured out but i'm slowly gaining some momentum sold out the potential center which was like you know phenomenal yeah the first year we did it was in a pandemic we didn't you know we had great numbers for that but this year we really did what we needed to do so now it's like um yeah man i'm just trying

to see where it can go maybe you know instead of four teams you know what i'm saying now we maybe get eight you know it gets 16 turned into a weekend you know we offer some classes about coding you know what I'm saying like you know and financial literacy that we have right now entrepreneur, you know, pitch competitions that we're doing. We're bringing in, you know, different sponsors and brands and now is really wanting to be involved with this. So just using the platform as best I can to give these guys a look. You know, now with the name of likeness, you know, setting off right now, now these cats can get brand deals. Okay, well, I'm in Hollywood.

I know brands, you know what I'm saying? Maybe I can start bringing in little small brand deals for cats to start getting paid so they can start, you know, if they don't go to the league, at least they have something. Absolutely. Are we setting up a pension for them in college, you know what I'm saying, in case they get hurt? that you have something to lean back on because all these cats ain't going to the league. No, most of them not. But if you love ball, maybe you end up, you know,

working front office. There's a lot of, like, jobs that's around the game of basketball that you can still have the love for it and not actually be on the court. And still be around the game. 1,000%. So those are things that I'm trying to, like, nurture and build and grow and just give cats more options, bro.

And it's great that you lean by example because it seems like you go into these, you know, a partnership with corporations like Walmart like pizza and be like, listen, I'm going to be doing some things. I want you all help because they jumping on board Pizza Hallmark and saying you know what?

We're going to help you in the HBCUs we're going to help fund founders of startups and all that stuff and help them and support them and take them to the fear. So it's like that's major and I just salute you for doing it

because what we come from a lot of times you don't you know we receive forward but we never give back. But you being so huge in the game and doing that I'm thinking that's going to influence others to say it's important for us to get back

to our communities and universities and just our people man that need to help. because we don't have a lot of resources that's available to a lot of people out there.