With a successful return culminating a national championship, Duke basketball freshman Zion Williamson would hold the key. All he would need to do is turn it, put the vehicle into drive, and floor it.
Rather than settling for an endorsement deal worth roughly $10 million annually — chump change — the potential perfecter of James Naismith’s invention would have the option to launch a shoe company that could make him a billionaire by age 25 and on a short list of the world’s wealthiest by the end of his playing days.
It could be his if he wants it — well, the lion’s share of it — without him having to touch his own bank account to start it.