LeBron James, Drake Sued for $10M by Billy Hunter over 'Black Ice' Documentary

According to the New York Post's Carl Campanile, Billy Hunter, the former executive director of the National Basketball Players Association, is going to file a $10 million lawsuit against the Los Angeles Lakers' superstars.

Hunter claims in his lawsuit that he holds the exclusive intellectual property rights to produce a film about the Colored Hockey League, which existed between 1895 and the 1930s.

While the defendants are well known and renowned in their respective fields of basketball and music, it does not afford them the right to steal another's intellectual property.

The book Black Ice: The Lost History of the Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes was written by George and Darril Fosty. Hunter alleged that the authors cut a deal with James and Drake after he paid $265,000 for the movie rights.

Hunter told the New York Post that he did not believe the property rights would be litigated. They thought I'd leave. They took a gamble.

The documentary wasn't within Hunter's rights, according to the lawsuit. Hunter claims that he paid for the exclusive worldwide rights to the story.

Hutcher argued that any claim to the contrary is ridiculous and made in bad faith.

Along with James, Drake, Future, Carter and the Frostys, James' entertainment companies (The Springhill Company and Uninterrupted Canada) and Drake's Dreamcrew Entertainment were all named in the lawsuit.