ON A SUNDAY afternoon inside the Superdome in December 2014, Rita Benson LeBlanc, the granddaughter of New Orleans Saints and Pelicans owner Tom Benson, reportedly accosted Benson's wife, Gayle.
Within six days, Tom Benson disinherited his daughter and her two children and made Gayle his primary heir. There's way more to this story, of course, and it was the subject of a long and bitter legal drama. But there's a lesson: Be careful messing with Gayle Benson.
What happens next with Anthony Davis is a huge test for the 72-year-old Benson, who became the Pelicans' owner last March when her husband of 13 years passed away.