In July the NBA Summer League and AAU Tournament descended on the Southern Nevada City and two incidents were detailed. The first involved AAU coach Jonathan Brad Augustine and an unnamed assistant coach at Louisville met in a Las Vegas hotel room to discuss paying a college player to attend the program.<\/p>\n
Agent Christian Dawkins and Augustine and the assistant agreed to give money to a youth player\u2019s family in exchange for him signing with the Cardinals and upon leaving the program signing with Dawkins and Adidas, the shoe company that has a sponsorship deal with the college and the AAU team.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re all working to get this kid to (Louisville),\u201d Dawkins said on the wiretap. \u201cObviously, in turn, the kid will come back to us.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\nFallout Quick, Severe<\/h2>\n
The four assistant coaches initially named in Tuesday\u2019s press conference have faced swift discipline from their employers. Oklahoma\u2019s Lamont Evans was fired Thursday. University of Arizona has started the process of firing Emanuel Richardson. Auburn\u2019s Chuck Person has been suspended without pay and USC\u2019s Tony Bland was suspended with pay.<\/p>\n
The biggest name to surface so far has been Louisville Coach Rick Pitino. The 65-year-old was identified by an anonymous source as being the unnamed coach in the indictment. The school removed the 16-year coach on Wednesday and started the process of finding an interim replacement.<\/p>\n
New York FBI Assistant Director in Charge William Sweeney said Tuesday the investigation is ongoing and more names could surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Las Vegas has been the backdrop for nefarious activities in the past and it acted as a host for three meetings with college basketball coaches accused of bribery and corruption in the biggest scandal to hit the sport since point shaving scandal six decades ago. The assistants are among 10 people associated with the sport […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":59805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,16,1074],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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