Zion Williamson shouldn’t have to deal with this.
In case you missed it, Williamson, now one of the N.B.A.’s brightest young stars, had his name come up in a lawsuit pitting former top college basketball recruit Brian Bowen against Adidas. The news was first reported by The Raleigh New & Observer and The Athletic this week.
Before he could play a single college game, the N.C.A.A. stripped Bowen’s eligibility after the F.B.I. began investigating a spate of under-the-table payments in college basketball over the past few years.
The F.B.I. found that an Adidas employee and others had schemed to pay Bowen’s father to steer him to Louisville, a school that collects $16 million a year for wearing the sporting goods giant’s gear.