NCAA basketball star embroiled in million-dollar STD lawsuit
NCAA basketball standout Isaac Haas is the subject of a $1 million civil lawsuit that accuses him of lying about having a sexually transmitted disease, per the Lafayette Journal & Courier.
The Purdue Boilermaker center, who just finished his senior year, is being sued by a woman named Alyssa Chambers in Tippecanoe Circuit Court. Purdue University and another woman, Madison Millsaps, are also both named as defendants in the case.
Chambers wants a jury trial, and is also seeking compensation for injuries, damages, costs and expenses.
According to Chambers, Haas lied about having an STD, infected her and has also infected several other women. It should be noted that police records show that Haas was never criminally investigated for knowingly transmitting STDs.
Chambers and Haas reportedly had a brief sexual encounter in May. Two weeks later, Chambers was diagnosed with an STD. Chambers indicated in a civil filing that she was only having sexual encounters with Haas during the time frame in which she may have been infected.
The filing also purports that Haas did admit to Chambers that he had an STD, but that it had been diagnosed and treated before their tryst. As far as Chambers knew, Haas was clean.
Haas, in turn, is blaming the Purdue University Student Health Services for the issues. According to the basketball star, he was tested, diagnosed and treated multiple times by them before being told he was clean.
The third defendant, Millsaps, is a mutual acquaintance of Haas and Chambers who allegedly tried to help Haas cover up the ordeal when she first learned about it.
“I feel horrible about it. But she wants to not only ruin my life, but others around me, and put her name out there like that?” Haas reportedly told Millsaps via text.
Haas’ latest ordeal caps off a tumultuous month for the Boilermaker.
Posting his best season as a player, in which he 14.7 points and 5.7 rebounds per game, Haas was a big part of why Purdue was a No. 2 seed in the NCAA tournament. Unfortunately for Haas, he fractured his right elbow in his team’s first-round win against Cal State Fullerton.
Haas would subsequently miss Purdue’s next two games, including the team’s 78-65 loss to Texas Tech in the Sweet 16.
To compound matters, the timing of the lawsuit couldn’t come at a worse time.
Considering how long court proceedings, hearings and trials can take, this issue is unlikely to be resolved by the NBA draft in June. If so, that’s quite a dark cloud hanging over the young man’s head as cutthroat NBA scouts search under ever rock to find something to criticize Haas for.
Before this controversy, Haas was viewed by many as a mid-to-late-second-round pick. After his stellar senior season, there was chatter of the 7-foot-2 Haas possibly even slipping into the bottom of the first round to a team that needs size.
Haas’ senior season earned him Third-Team All-Big Ten Conference honors. He also finished the season as a finalist for the Kareem Abdul Jabbar Award, which is given annually to the nation’s best center.
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