{"id":77701,"date":"2026-08-21T08:54:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T13:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/21\/former-alabama-basketball-player-wins-9-25m-in-defamation-case-against-new-york-times\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T08:54:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T13:54:50","slug":"former-alabama-basketball-player-wins-9-25m-in-defamation-case-against-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/21\/former-alabama-basketball-player-wins-9-25m-in-defamation-case-against-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Alabama basketball player wins $9.25m in defamation case against New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Kai Spears incorrectly linked to death of young mother<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Times says it had not lost libel case in more than 50 years<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An Alabama jury has awarded $9.25m in damages after finding that the New York Times defamed a college basketball player by incorrectly reporting that he was at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2023\/jan\/15\/darius-miles-charged-capital-murder-alabama-basketball\">scene of a fatal shooting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kai Spears, who played for the University of Alabama men\u2019s team, sued the Times in 2023 after it published a report, citing a person familiar with the investigation, that said he was a passenger in a car involved in the shooting. The Times reported that the person had spoken \u201con the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/aug\/21\/kai-spears-alabama-basketball-defamation-case-new-york-times\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kai Spears incorrectly linked to death of young mother Times says it had not lost libel case in more than 50 years An Alabama jury has awarded $9.25m in damages after finding that the New York Times defamed a college basketball player by incorrectly reporting that he was at the scene of a fatal shooting. &#8230; <a title=\"Former Alabama basketball player wins $9.25m in defamation case against New York Times\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/21\/former-alabama-basketball-player-wins-9-25m-in-defamation-case-against-new-york-times\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Former Alabama basketball player wins $9.25m in defamation case against New York Times\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}