Zion Williamson remains the poster child for attending college. He arrived at Duke with nearly 1 million Twitter followers and left Durham a transcendent star. Zion became a one-name brand by toe-touching campus for a few months, helping him sign a rookie-record $75 million shoe deal with Nike after leaving.
But the Zion experience at Duke is potentially being reframed through a legal tiff that spilled out some compelling public documents on Sunday.
A legal filing in Florida from Williamson’s former marketing representative repeatedly alleges that Williamson’s family courted and received extra benefits for his time at Duke, according to a Request for Admission in Dade County (Florida).