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John Calipari fought hard for a commitment from James Wiseman, the No. 1 player in America in last year’s high school recruiting class. Calipari was on Wiseman early and often, only to lose him in the end to new hire Penny Hardaway at Memphis.
Now Wiseman and Hardaway are in hot water for improper benefits Hardaway extended to Wiseman’s family prior to the two linking up at Memphis. It has been alleged (and Penny has not argued) that Hardaway paid for Wiseman’s family to move (an $11,000 move) to Memphis from Nashville; and though Hardaway wasn’t the head coach at Memphis at the time, the NCAA considers him to be a booster for the university and its basketball program.