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Zion Williamson and LSU Coach Will Wade's Names Surface at College Hoops Corruption Trial

NEW YORK — If you wanted to hear the juiciest details at Tuesday’s session of the ongoing federal conspiracy trial against two former Adidas executives and an aspiring player agent, you would have had to get to Courtroom 26B before the jury. For some two hours this morning, while the jury was kept from the room, the trio of defense teams attempted, largely unsuccessfully, to enter an array of new exhibits into evidence. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan denied the admission of many of those, among them two revelations likely to resonate far beyond the U.S. judicial system: that Kansas assistant Kurtis Townsend was caught on a wiretap expressing a willingness to provide money and other benefits in exchange for No.