In July, Master P and his son, Hercy Miller, announced a $2 million NIL deal for Hercy, an incoming freshman basketball player for HBCU university, Tennessee State (TSU).
The deal was head-scratching but the Millers were adding to the revived popularity of HBCU athletics and institutions, so the situation came and went.
“This is going to change the way college athletes want to stay in school,” said Master P to TMZ at the time.
“I’m proud of my son going to an HBCU,” added the hip-hop mogul.
Then last week, that good feeling soured when Master P pulled Hercy out of school over a dispute about the treatment of his son’s hip injury.
“We’ve got a great program at Tennessee State, we’ve got great people, we loved the culture, we just don’t have enough trainers,” said Master P. “We don’t have enough medical people to take care of what needs to be taken care of. We don’t have the technology that the Dukes and all these major universities have. An injury like this could have been prevented.”
Hercy was injured on November 9th in the Tigers’ first game of the season against Alabama A&M.
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Originally posted 2021-12-13 13:00:00.
