An FBI-intercepted phone call from June 2017 revealed former Arizona assistant Emanuel "Book" Richardson reportedly told former Adidas consultant Christian Dawkins that head coach Sean Miller was paying Deandre Ayton, according to ESPN.
Federal prosecutors played the phone call, which took place on June 20, 2017, in court in New York on Wednesday as part of the ongoing NCAA college basketball corruption trial. In the call, Dawkins and Richardson allegedly discussed recruiting Ayton to Dawkins's management company.
Richardson told Dawkins, "Sean's got to get the (expletive) out the way and let us work," while discussing Ayton, reports ESPN.