COLUMBUS, Ohio — A former NBA player must pay $25,000 a month in child support after the Ohio Supreme Court ruled he missed the deadline to challenge a Lorain County magistrate judge’s order by one day.

The dispute stems from a brief relationship that began after Christian Wood, who last played power forward for the Los Angeles Lakers, connected with Jedda Eggleston on social media in 2019. A photo of Eggleston went viral on Twitter, now known as X, and caught Wood’s attention.

The two later had a child in January 2021. Eggleston filed for child support that year in Lorain County Domestic Relations Court, and a county magistrate eventually set the amount at $25,000 per month, far above a $2,100-a-month figure as calculated by the state’s child support schedule.

The magistrate said the i

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