'While Michael Avenatti has seemingly lost the first round of a public battle with Nike, we can’t totally dismiss the possibility that he could eventually factor into an NCAA investigation,' DanWolken writes for usatodaysports.
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Ask DeAndre Ayton and Nike about the cash payments to his mother and others. Nike’s attempt at diversion and cover-up will fail miserably once prosecutors realize they have been played by Nike and their lawyers at Boies. This reaches the highest levels of Nike. But while the immediate focus of the indictment against Avenatti went to his alleged attempts to blackmail Nike, it did contain a rather interesting reference to his client, who was described as an AAU coach in California whose program had recently lost its Nike affiliation and sponsorship.
NEWSLETTERSThank you! You're almost signed up for SportsKeep an eye out for an email to confirm your newsletter registration.More newslettersWhether Avenatti’s tactics went outside legal boundaries, or whether anyone at Nike could be implicated in wrongdoing, will be for the government and the court system to decide. But from an NCAA perspective, there’s almost certainly going to be an interest now in what kind of evidence Avenatti had from Franklin.
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