Court Documents: Nike willing to pay high schoolers - "We dictate where players go to school"
Posted Aug 17, 2019
Text messages and emails from Nike executives entered in federal court on Friday paint a vivid portrait of the inner workings of grassroots basketball. They include detailed plans to pay then-high school stars such as Zion Williamson and Romeo Langford, line-item accounting of alleged payments to the people around eventual No. 1 pick Deandre Ayton.
(Yahoo! Sports)
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