JUSTTHENEWS (Kevin Killough) - New York Times ordered to pay $9.25 million in defamation suit from former Alabama basketball player
Kai Spears was an 18-year-old freshman walk-on basketball player for the University of Alabama's Crimson Tide when New York Times sports writer Billy Witz falsely identified Spears as being a passenger in the car at the site of a January 2023 fatal shooting of 23-year-old Jamea Harris.