According to the Raleigh News & Observer, Adidas may have paid Zion Williamson’s father $5,474 dollars in 2016-17.
Adidas is sort of unclear about just how the details but let’s get a few things out of the way quickly.
First, this was paid in nine payments over a couple of years. That’s an average payment of $608.22 dollars per payment.
Second, this came from Adidas, and since Duke is a Nike school, we can’t imagine there’s any logical way for this money, much less this amount of money, to have led Williamson to Duke.