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Arizona's Sean Miller Mentioned in FBI Recording in Relation to Payments to Deandre Ayton

During Wednesday's federal trial concerning corruption in college basketball, a 2017 video recording showed defendant Christian Dawkins discussing a conversation with Arizona coach Sean Miller regarding payments for former Arizona star Deandre Ayton, according to multiple reports.

Dawkins quotes Miller from their previous conversation, saying, "Sean Miller called me a week and a half ago [and said] 'I'm taking care of everything myself. I wanna bring you in. I'll turn over everything to you.'"

FBI witness Mary Blazer testified, "I understood that to mean he had been taking care of payments for Deandre Ayton.