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Dear Mark Emmert...the time is now.Who are you, or anyone else, to tell them they’re not permitted to make every effort to realize their own self worth? The time is now Let players retain the rights to their most valuable asset: themselves.#SincerelyYours,@LukeyBonner

We are in the throes of a pandemic. Everyone (and everything) has been forced to adapt. Work meetings, the WNBA draft, the NFL draft, and drinks with friends are Zoom-enabled at best. We’ve even resorted to watching professional athletes play video games and virtual HORSE.

What's a college education worth? That's debatable these days, with our changing world making some degrees less valuable — or more valuable — than expected.

Concord native Luke Bonner has been working to empower athletes for years. He advocates for college student-athletes’ rights through the College Athletes Players Association, which he co-founded in 2014. He’s written about player empowerment for VICE.com and has spoken on the subject at places like the University of New Hampshire Law School, Harvard Law School and NPR.

On a recent weekend afternoon, Luke Bonner — the younger brother of former NBA player Matt Bonner and a former professional basketball player himself — is coaching Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, the Hawaii congresswoman and Democratic presidential candidate, the proper fundamentals of a right-handed layup.

Former NCAA and professional basketball player Luke Bonner joins the show to talk about his new life as a player advocate, taking us behind the scenes of NCAA hoops and outlining how he'd like to change the broken system of so-called "amateur" athletics. 

Former professional basketball player Luke Bonner is the owner of Power Forward Sports Group (PWRFWD). PWRFWD is a consultancy specializing in player advocacy and sports marketing.

When most people look at Tacko Fall, they don’t think “savvy businessman,” but they probably ought to. It’s easy to get caught up in his height, 7-foot-5, which is extraordinarily tall even among his vertically-gifted peers in the NBA. And it is easier still to get distracted by his also-extraordinarily gregarious personality.

March Madness is suffused with "love of the game" propaganda justifying restrictions on paying athletes. A former Division I basketball player explains why those roles are burdensome and irrelevant.

Many professional sports leagues have found ways to return to American televisions. You know the phrases. The bubble. The, uh, not bubble. However, they aren’t necessarily holding fans’s attention.