As everyone once expected, Reeves Nelson could soon be looking at a $10 million pay day. But instead of earning it through hard work and basketball talent, as everyone figured he would, Nelson stands to make ten million bucks for not peeing on another person's clothes.
Did disgraced former UCLA Bruin Reeves Nelson pile former teammate Tyler Honeycutt's clothes onto his bed, and urinate on them? That is $10 million question.
Nelson is suing Sports Illustrated in response to a story SI ran last winter that detailed Nelson's various misbehaviors before being kicked off the UCLA basketball team. In the story, SI claims to have talked to a dozen former UCLA players and reports that Nelson was a physical and verbal bully to his UCLA teammates and coaches, that he was a party animal, an asshole, and that he peed on Tyler Honeycutt's clothes and bed after Honeycutt snitched about a New Year's Eve party Nelson was planning.
Nelson denied the reports in the SI story at the time of its publication, and Honeycutt has since said that "Nelson did not pile my clothes on my bed, and he certainly did not urinate on my clothes."
The lawsuit alleges that SI writer George Dohrmann "recklessly and negligently failed to investigate the claims in the article," and provides declarations from 18 current and former UCLA players who deny every negative allegation about Nelson in the SI story.
The lawsuit also claims that Dohrmann has an ax to grind with UCLA, citing a 1991 story he wrote about UCLA's Baron Davis that included bogus allegations of NCAA violations.
There's a lesson here, kids. If you're a talented f*ck up who blows your shot at riches and glory, abstain from urinating on someone else's bed and clothes. There could be a future in it.
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