On Friday, Michael Avenatti tweeted this out: .@DukeMBB - About this denial by Coach K the other day relating to payments by Nike...Can you please ask Zion Williamson’s mother - Sharonda Sampson - whether she was paid by @nike for bogus “consulting services” in 2016/17 as part of a Nike bribe to get Zion to go to Duke? Thx.
There’s a lot we don’t know so we’re going to focus on what we do know.
Let’s start with Avenatti. He rose to prominence as Stormy Daniels’ attorney. Recently he was arrested for attempting to extort Nike when he claimed to have damaging information about possible payoffs from Nike, or at least Nike representatives, to either players or families or representatives of said players.