Former LSU basketball player Tim Quarterman is among a group of current and former NCAA basketball standouts that were allegedly part of an underground recruiting operation that funneled cash and other benefits from a sports agency to the amateur athletes.
The report by Yahoo Sports is based on hundreds of pages of documents in a years-long probe by federal authorities that detail the expenditures of former NBA agent Andy Miller, his former associate Christian Dawkins and his agency, ASM Sports.
Quarterman, who played at LSU from 2013 to 2016 before departing for the NBA, received $16,000 from the sports agency, according to a balance sheet in the hands of federal investigators. He most recently played in the NBA G League.
Markelle Fultz, the number one pick in the NBA draft last year, also received payments while in college. Current stars named in the report include Miles Bridges of Michigan State University, Collin Sexton of Alabama University and Duke’s Wendell Carter. The amounts range from basic meals to tens of thousands of dollars.
The documents, which appear to violate the NCAA’s amateurism rules, could cast a pall over the upcoming NCAA tournament because of eligibility issues of the players named, Yahoo Sports reports. Players at North Carolina, Texas, Kentucky, Michigan State, USC, Alabama and a host of other schools are named in the report.
NCAA President Mark Emmert says in a statement that more work is needed to “clean up the sport.”
Quarterman last month was arrested in Mississippi and accused of assaulting state police officers, according to reports. Read the full story on the NCAA probe.
