Former Adidas executive discusses recruiting deals with Zion Williamson, Brian Bowen, Anthony Davis

Posted Feb 14, 2022
Merl Code is going to prison for up to nine months for being a cog in the college basketball underground economy. Code said he doesn’t know how Duke landed Zion Williamson. But he noted that the Williamsons, who had been living at extremely modest means a couple of years earlier, moved into a luxury neighborhood in Durham while Zion was at Duke. (Sports Illustrated)

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