Now that the Duke basketball season is over. We all knew that the foolishness was about to begin as he pertains to the biggest star to EVER play college basketball. Was he the most talented? No! Was he the most skilled? No! Does he have the biggest upside? No! He just became the most famous playa!! Social media is a monster and dunking the basketball is worth more than skill from an entertainment standpoint because it’s called marketing.
Therefore, it was impossible to believe that with all of the money being made as a result of him even playing college basketball that we would escape the foolishness of allegations of somebody getting money.
Well playas, on this past Friday night Attorney Michael Avenatti jumped out of the birthday cake butt naked foamin’ at the mouth on Twitter. Ole boy said that Nike paid Zion’s mother for “bogus” services in 2016 or 2017 “as part of a Nike bribe to get Zion to go to Duke.“
Now keep in mind that this is the same dun that was arrested and charged with attempting to extort more than $20 million in payments from Nike. He’s also the same cat that was charged last week in New York with extortion and bank and wire fraud. Oh yeah, he’s the same person charged in California with bank and wire fraud in a separate case. He’s also the dun that was arrested for domestic violence after trying to get famous by representing Stormy Daniels. I’m just sayin’ just so we’re clear on who we’re talking about.
Now let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes comes 1st! Let’s just say that ole boy is, for the first time in his life, telling the God’s honest truth about Zion’s momma gettin’ paid under the table. Let’s hypothetically say that it was true. Who’s mad at her for getting whatever bread she got for him to go to Duke? Really bruh?
Even if she did it wasn’t enough. Now again, I’m not saying that she did get paid. I’m just saying that if she did it wasn’t enough. Her son is worth more that a half billion dollars in marketing and promotion for Nike or any other apparel company right now and he’s gotten absolutely nothing for his services. Ask CBS how much he’s mad them in just the past two weeks?
Nike specifically designed a shoe for him to wear after he blew out the first one. Not only did they design the new show but they told the world on national television during the ACC Tournament that they did. Well…the broadcasters did. Either way, they got crazy promotion for their products and Zion got absolutely nothing.
The NCAA Tournament made millions off of his likeness by putting a Zion Cam on him during Duke’s run in the Big Dance. He got absolutely nothing for his services but a free room and twin size bed with breakfast, lunch and dinner. And oh yeah, free access to the Duke athletic facility.
While everybody in Durham and the surrounding area made major bread off of Zion being the most exciting and intriguing college basketball player we’ve ever seen, he got nothing.
So if his mom did get paid a bogus consulting fee it clearly wasn’t enough and I don’t think too many people would care if she was riding around in a Bugatti wrapped in Louis Vuitton. In my DJ from Hustle and Flow voice, “Get Ya Money Mane.”
If nothing else they should have paid her for allowing her son to change the image of Duke. People were actually cheering for Duke this year. Nobody likes Duke and for the first time on Hood History the hood was rooting for Duke to win games. That’s worth $100 million in and of itself. Stop me when I start lyin’!
