There's a long, juicy but unsurprising piece on Yahoo! Sports detailing how sports agents have turned to corrupting AAU coaches to get around the NBA's new age limits.
Kevin Love, who played a single season at UCLA last year before being drafted by the Minnesota Timberwolves, is the prized athlete in this tale. Ceruzzi Sports and Entertainment is the company that slipped more than $250,000 to a California AAU coach named Pat Barrett so that he might use his influence with his illustrious former players to get them to sign with Ceruzzi.
Representing Ceruzzi's interests out in the field was Jay Williams, former Duke All-American whose professional career came to a halt when he hit a utility pole on his brand-new crotch rocket without helmet, license or contractual permission from the Chicago Bulls.
Love, then in the middle of his freshman season at UCLA, was both annoyed and unimpressed when his former coach Barrett insisted on introducing him to Williams.