Zion Williamson Allegedly Took $400 Grand and I Don’t Care

It’s time for the NCAA and fans of basketball to stop blaming athletes like Zion Williamson for the corruption that has long plagued college sports.

Another day, another chapter in the seemingly never-ending saga that is the Zion Williamson lawsuit.

In case you haven’t been following, Zion Williamson is being sued by his former marketing agent Gina Ford, who claims Zion was in breach of contract when he fired her and got a new agent.

Ford has also claimed that Zion took improper benefits before and while he was a student at Duke University.

Instead of going after Duke, or the NCAA or any number of corporate sponsors who are involved, Ford has decided to sue 20-year-old Zion Williamson while simultaneously dragging his family through the mud.

Yesterday Ford filed another affidavit that claims Zion Williamson and his stepfather took as much as $400 thousand according to legal analyst Daniel Wallach:

My first reaction was “Good.”

If Zion Williamson got some scratch for he and his family, I am happy for him and personally feel like he did nothing wrong.

College sports are pretty much the only area of American capitalism where a person can do something that makes literally billions of dollars for other people, yet get nothing.

The NCAA is an organization that has long benefited from “student” athletes who draw billions in corporate sponsorships and television ads for their universities.

Teenage athletes are used to sell tickets and boost the visibility of a university, their names are used to sell jerseys and team merchandise, all for the reward of a potential college degree which they may never get.

I understand that there are many students around the world who would love the chance to go to college for free. I was one of them.

But arenas full of people weren’t coming to my literature classes and no one around campus was wearing my jersey.

I also taught at a major Pac 10 university and in that time had many student athletes in my classes. Most of them worked their butts off, traveled all over the country representing their school, still never missed class and genuinely cared about their education.

Also, most of them weren’t ever going to be professionals or make a dime off their talents.

If Zion Williamson, who is now worth hundreds of millions of dollars, wanted to take a down payment on that to help out his family, good on him.

I’m pretty sure Duke, the NCAA and everyone else involved got to wet their respective beaks off Zion’s talent, and if anyone should be dragged, it’s them, not the teenager trying to get his mom a house.

This is why I don’t watch college sports and hope that more players choose the G-League path as opposed to college, where the bloodsuckers line up to fill their pockets while people malign the student-athletes for “cheating.”

It’s funny that no one ever tells professional tennis or golf players, most of whom are white, that they must go to college, or that they should be grateful to allow a university to rake in millions off their talents. I supposed that is just a coincidence, right?

I hope Zion Williamson did take money and I hope the next Zion and the one after that do too.

Until the NCAA figures out a way to share their enormous profits with the people actually generating them, they can expect more of their athletes to end up in legal battles with bloodsuckers trying to get rich off teenagers.