Adidas Charts New Future For Women’s Basketball By Signing Rising Star Kaleena Smith As First High School NIL Athlete

Essence Magazine:

The game just changed for young women in sports.

adidas Basketball is putting its money—and its name—behind a young Black woman athlete, marking their first-ever high school NIL (Name, Image, and Likeness) partnership with sophomore sensation Kaleena Smith.

The announcement comes as

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