"If you're facing jail time for trying to extort Nike, and then you keep hinting that you'll reveal something about Nike in the future... that *can't* be helping your case. Especially since, as we already saw with the Ayton/Bol/McCoy stuff, it's exceedingly likely that the FBI has any documents pertaining Zion's families interactions with Nike already anyway."

You don't find it strange that he threatened to make the allegations at a press conference during the tourney...and THEN he's arrested...?

"b) Avenatti knows there's no hard evidence on Zion's mom and just wants to tarnish Nike/Zion publicly out of spite before heading to jail."

Again, the threat came before the criminal charges against him

How could that be spite beforehand?