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John Calipari discusses Michael Avenatti’s Nike allegations

It seems like the college basketball corruption news and NCAA investigations will never come to an end.

This past August, what appeared to be Kentucky associate head coach Kenny Payne’s initials were mentioned in documents that Michael Avenatti submitted to the federal court to support his claim that Nike paid players to go to schools they sponsored.

Based on these documents, Payne had a conversation with Nike EYBL director Carlton DeBose in which DeBose told Payne which EYBL coaches he supplied money to in order to help families of players on the shoe circuit.

This morning, John Calipari met with reporters and was asked about this specifically and whether or not he was concerned.