LOS ANGELES — No one, it seems, is willing to play Donda Academy and its roster of top college basketball prospects. The reason is well-chronicled: Donda founder and billionaire entertainer Kanye West has alienated much of society with his repeated antisemitic hate speech.
What about the players? They had a dream of playing at Donda Academy: a star-studded roster, a top-tier schedule that included several prestigious national tournaments, an unparalleled arrangement with sports apparel giant Adidas; and an online academic curriculum that could be completed in a couple of hours a day.
As a bonus, their home facility would be the well-appointed Sports Academy in Thousand Oaks, formerly the Mamba Academy owned by Kobe Bryant before he and eight others died in a January 2020 helicopter crash.
