Three months ago rapper Ice Cube offered college basketball player, Caitlin Clark, $5 million to join his Big 3 Basketball league, after she announced she was forgoing her last year of college eligibility to enter the WNBA draft [click here if you missed that].
In related news Ice Cube is being sued by his former Big 3 attorney for breach of contract, after being told he was not being paid because the league was going through "financial difficulty..."
From The Blast
Ice Cube's BIG3 basketball league's former attorney, Lawrence C. Hinkle II, is suing it for breach of contract.
According to legal documents obtained by The Blast, the plaintiff accused the Hip-hop star's organization of repeatedly failing to pay for his legal services. He also slammed them with a Quantum Meruit complaint, asking for reasonable compensation for his work.
In the documents, Hinkle explained that Ice Cube had scouted him in May 2022 at the draft for BIG3's 2022 season.
He was hired to provide legal services for the basketball league, which allegedly agreed to pay him $700 per hour with an advancement of $10,000.
Hinkle noted he received the advanced payment for his services in early June and was promised that the principal balance of $21,690 for his services in July would be paid by August 5. However, this became the starting point of his unpaid wages.
From September 2022 to May 2024, Hinkle claimed he repeatedly contacted BIG3 representatives for his money until he was forced to file a breach of contract lawsuit.
He claimed the organization's reps acknowledged they owed him money for his services and assured him that he would be paid. However, BIG3 refused to pay him even after alerting its CEO and co-founder, Ice Cube, of the situation.
When Hinkle alerted Ice Cube of his due wages, the "Straight Outta Compton" rapper allegedly promised to look into it and get back to him. However, the lawsuit claimed he ignored the plaintiff's numerous follow-up emails.
Meanwhile, BIG3 representatives kept stringing Hinkle along by claiming he wasn't getting paid because of "financial difficulties." Despite this claim, the basketball league spent money outside the lawyer's owed fees and made a bold move last month.
Hinkle highlighted that BIG3 wasn't financially constrained because Ice Cube publicly announced the basketball league had offered college athlete Caitlin Clark $5,000,000 to join them.
The rapper also claimed the organization sold one of its teams for $10,000,000, which begged the question, "Why then has BIG3 refused to pay Mr. Hinkle?"
The plaintiff argued that Ice Cube once declared the basketball league was all about supporting Black people, yet it discriminated against an African-American lawyer.
5 comments:
Pay the man!
Another one, living large, talking hard, with coins on mute.
Wow! Lawrence C. Hinkle II is a huge deal in the California legal community. I can't believe Cube and the Big 3 have shafted him on his billings. Shame! If they couldn't afford him, then they should have never retained him. Also, the nerve of them offering Caitlin Clark 5 million, with money they obviously don't have but didn't offer it to anyone else. I can't imagine how she would have gotten ran over by those male players in the Big 3, because she can barely keep up in the WNBA.
Now I'm beginning to see why he is for Trump. SMDH
Somebody should have told Cube. Lawyers always get paid...I have a feeling Cube has stiffed attorneys in the past...You messed with the wrong one NOW. Then sat up there talking bout he wanna pay that pasty azz white gurl millions while you don't pay a black man! Expose his hyprocrisy.
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