Court grants Williamson pause on faulty-advantages inquiry

MIAMI (AP) — A Florida appeals court docket has temporarily granted NBA rookie Zion Williamson’s try and dam his feeble marketing agent’s effort to have the ex-Duke star reply questions about whether he obtained faulty advantages sooner than playing for the Blue Devils.

The allege Thursday granted Williamson a pause and paused lawsuits within the lawsuit from Top Sports actions Advertising and company president Gina Ford, whose attorneys must reply inner 10 days.

That lawsuit filed final summer season accused Williamson and the agency now representing him of breach of contract. Williamson had filed his have lawsuit per week earlier in North Carolina to discontinuance a five-year contract with Top Sports actions after transferring to Ingenious Artists Company LLC.

Ford’s attorneys had submitted questions in filings final month that included whether the Fresh Orleans Pelicans rookie or somebody on his behalf sought or accredited “money, advantages, favors or issues of label” to signal with Duke. They sought answers inner 30 days to set facts below oath within the pretrial discovery course of.

Attorneys for final year’s No. 1 total NBA draft own had argued the questions were “nothing bigger than a fishing expedition,” but circuit judge David C. Miller denied Williamson’s long-established pause request Tuesday.

Jeremy Watkins, a spokesman for Williamson attorney Jeffrey Klein, declined to observation to The Associated Press on Thursday evening. Larry A. Strauss and Stephen L. Drummond, attorneys on the Top Sports actions-Ford ideally suited workers, didn’t straight away return emails for observation.