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Book Richardson alleges Sean Miller paid Deandre Ayton $10,000 per month

On Wednesday, federal prosecutors at the college basketball corruption trial played recordings from a wiretapped phone call that captured former Arizona Wildcats assistant Book Richardson telling Christian Dawkins that UA head coach Sean Miller paid Deandre Ayton $10,000 month while he was attending the school.

Here is how that conversation went, as transcribed by multiple outlets including ESPN:

Richardson: “Sean’s got to get the (expletive) out the way and let us work.”

Dawkins: ‘We’ll see how Sean plays it out.