LeBron James and Drake Sued Over ‘Black Ice’ Hockey Documentary

LeBron James and Drake stole the rights to a film a couple of segregated hockey league … this in line with a brand new lawsuit.

The NBA star and rapper are being sued for $10 million by Billy Hunter, the previous head of the NBA gamers union, who claims he holds the unique authorized rights to provide any film about Canada’s outdated Colored Hockey League.

According to the lawsuit, obtained by TMZ, Hunter claims LeBron and Drake used their manufacturing corporations to go behind his again and signal a cope with the authors of a e-book their “Black Ice” hockey documentary is predicated on … icing out Hunter within the course of.

Problem is … Hunter claims he had a cope with the fellows who wrote, “Black Ice: The Lost History of the Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes, 1895-1925,” the place Hunter would maintain the unique rights to provide a film.

Hunter says he paid the authors, George and Darril Fosty, a mixed $265,000 to lock up the film rights to the story of a Canadian hockey league for Black gamers … however says they labored out a aspect cope with LeBron and Drake.

In the swimsuit, Hunter claims he confronted the Fosty brothers after listening to about their cope with LeBron and Drake and says the authors claimed the documentary didn’t violate their settlement with Hunter as a result of a documentary is completely different than a film … a declare Hunter says is “absurd and made in bad faith.”

Hunter, who was the top of the NBA gamers union when LeBron got here into the league, goes after LBJ and Drake for a minimize of the documentary’s income … plus $10 million in damages.