Billy Preston, a former Kansas men’s basketball player who never got to play in a single collegiate game due to his involvement in an ongoing NCAA investigation, recently spoke out and alleged that the Jayhawks staff knew about the payments made by Adidas to his mother, Nicole Player.
While speaking on ESPN’s 30 for 30 podcast The Bag Game this week, Preston was asked if the Kansas staff knew that Adidas associate T.J. Gassnola, who said during a 2018 trial stemming from an FBI investigation into college basketball corruption that he paid around $89,000 to Player, was paying his family money. Preston, who was supposed to begin his collegiate career in 2017, said that the staff did indeed know.
“They wasn’t blind to that. They weren’t blind to that at all,” Preston said.
