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ESPN report: Convicted agent talked with Sean Miller, planned to pay Rawle Alkins

Aspiring agent Christian Dawkins wrote of a plan to pay UA standout Rawle Alkins and his family $50,000 while he played for Arizona last season, ESPN reported in a lengthy story posted Sunday night.

The report also linked Dawkins to UA coach Sean Miller via phone records. Phones registered to Dawkins and Miller were connected multiple times between May 3 and July 2, 2017, ESPN reported, citing evidentiary files obtained from the federal trial involving college basketball. Thirteen of those calls lasted five minutes or longer.

Michael Schachter, the defense attorney for Adidas executive James Gatto, unsuccessfully tried to enter into evidence the fact that the FBI did not record a handful of calls between Miller and Dawkins, ESPN reported, even though the attorney said Miller was listed as a “target” of the FBI wiretaps.