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Founder of WBA sues NBA for custody of letter N

by Joe on January 19th, 2008

(And $500 million.)

One man feels the NBA owes him some respect, some recognition and what I mentioned above (well, I’m not certain about the “N”) and damned if he’s not suing to get it.

Lightning Mitchell (yeah) has filed a lawsuit in federal court claiming the National Basketball Association stole his idea for a women’s basketball league when they created the Women’s National Basketball Association and effectively killed his Women’s Basketball Association.

If you’ve caught your breath from reading all that, here’s the kicker.

Mitchell said he’s waited so long to file the suit because he only recently found out that the person he had been talking to about creating the women’s league is the same person who then launched the WNBA.

So it wasn’t a mental distress as the league grew to what is arguably its greatest success until you found out you’d allegedly been pawned off?

Right.

(Photo Courtesy of MyFoxKC.com)

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