In March of last year, a 2017 wiretapped phone conversation between LSU coach Will Wade and former basketball agent and middleman Christian Dawkins was brought to light by Yahoo! Sports.
In the conversation, Wade spoke openly about making a “strong-ass” offer he made to current Tiger guard Javonte Smart, along with the fact that LSU “could compensate [players] better than the [NBA] rookie minimum.”
Yahoo! Sports has had the transcript of the conversation out for over a year now, but now, the audio has officially surfaced.
In the HBO documentary The Scheme released last night, Dawkins tells his story of the role he played in the FBI’s recent investigation into the corruption of college basketball.