Donald Wine

Contracts are meant to protect both parties, so shouldn't there be ways for both parties to get out of the deal?

Yes, this is still enforceable because there's no specific clause for termination for convenience, which would be an at will assignment.

If you've heard that term at will employment, I can I can fire you, Jason, for no reason.

You can quit for no reason.

And everybody walks away.

There's no notice period or what have you.

A lot of times those are written into contracts saying, hey, if you want to enter the transfer portal, you're going to give 15 days notice or something like that so that Duke can prepare for you leaving to enter the transfer portal, that sort of thing.

So there is a measure and a mechanism for Duke to terminate this contract also to withhold money for a breach of contract.

But none are included for Mensa, and Mensa has to – his lawyers are going to have to argue why he should be able to exit this contract without penalty.

That is going to be something very hard for him to do.

So looking at the contract, I didn't see anything that would tell me that, oh, here's your exit strategy here.

I was like, here's all he has to kind of invoke Clause 3-4 or whatever.

There's nothing explicitly written in here that gives Derry Mensah a way to get out of this deal, at least from what I'm seeing.

And that is what Duke is alleging, right?

They're basically saying that he can't terminate this deal.

He signed for two years, and there's no way for him to –

There's no mechanism for him to break this contract, only for us to do so.

And again, he could do that as discretion.

If you think back to three weeks ago when he decided that he was going to come back to Duke.

which is also listed as kind of a part of the timeline, but also was part of Duke's claim that he reaffirmed that he was going to abide by this deal.