Former UCLA basketball player Ed O’Bannon sued the NCAA in 2009 over name, image and likeness rights. He recently gave writer J. Brady McCollough a first-person account of his reaction to recent events that have led to college athletes being compensated for their fame.
LeBron James didn’t call me directly, but, as they say in Hollywood, his people called my people. So my wife and I drove out to Los Angeles. I had been a fan of his show and had watched “The Shop” a number of times prior to me going on.