According to Yahoo Sports and Bloomberg Law, six former Florida State basketball players sued their coach, Leonard Hamilton, for breaching promises of $250,000 in NIL payments to each player, leading to a player boycott and highlighting the chaotic nature of the NIL era in college sports. Primo Spears, the former Georgetown Hoyas guard, is a plaintiff in the case and former Associate Head Coach Kevin Nickelberry—who is not named in the complaint—was on Hamilton’s staff during this time.
In a landmark filing, six former FSU basketball players are suing Seminoles coach Leonard Hamilton over $1.