NBA star Joe Johnson, who still calls Little Rock home, is inviting the press in Saturday for the “launch” of the Joe Johnson Foundation, a nonprofit aimed at helping low-income kids and their families. His stated mission: entrepreneurship, physical fitness and hunger relief.

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