Kansas assistant coach Kurtis Townsend discussed the financial requests of a recruit 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.
Moore told Kaplan the phone call concerns Zion Williamson: “In this call between Mr. Code andMr. Townsend, Mr. Townsend says .