Kansas assistant coach Kurtis Townsend discussed the financial requests of a recruit’s family during a phone call with one of the defendants in the Adidas college basketball corruption trial, according to a defense argument made in court Tuesday.
Mark C. Moore, an attorney for former Adidas employee Merl Code, tried unsuccessfully to get the phone call entered into evidence but discussed it with Judge Lewis A. Kaplan while the jury was not present in the federal courtroom in Manhattan.
The phone call concerns the family of Zion Williamson. Moore told Kaplan “In this call between Mr. Code and Mr.