The Black male athlete won’t be portrayed as the pawns that they truly are in this explosive college hoops bribery scandal

When the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York announced on Tuesday that it had cracked a college basketball bribery scandal, the sports world stood still. According to the complaints, assistant coaches at Auburn, the University of South Carolina, the University of Arizona and the University of Southern California accepted bribes to steer top prospects to certain agents and financial advisers.

Louisville and the University of Miami have also been implicated in the form of Adidas, which sponsors them and their school’s athletic departments, paying recruits upwards of $150,000 to sign with those programs to get them under the company’s umbrella, with the hopes of gaining brand loyalty and signing them to later endorsement deals if they blossom into elite NBA prospects.

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