Duke A.D. Kevin White On Wendell Carter And Friday’s Yahoo Story

After this morning’s report that a runner for former agent Andy Miller, Christian Dawkins, may have paid for a meal for Wendell Carter’s mother, Duke A.D. Kevin White issued a statement. Here’s the main point:

“A Duke student-athlete was identified in a Yahoo Sports report this morning about men’s college basketball. Duke immediately reviewed the matter and, based on the available information, determined there was no eligibility issues related to today’s report.”

So Carter will play Saturday against Syracuse. Here’s the full statement:

“A Duke student-athlete was identified in a Yahoo Sports report this morning about men’s college basketball. Duke immediately reviewed the matter and, based on the available information, determined there was no eligibility issues related to today’s report. Duke has already contacted the NCAA and will continue to work collaboratively with the NCAA and the Atlantic Coast Conference. Duke has an uncompromising commitment to compliance in athletics. That had not, and will not, change.”

A couple of notes on this that we should have mentioned earlier: first, just because a name is in a spreadsheet doesn’t mean that it’s honestly entered. Christian Dawkins has been portrayed as a dodgy character. One former employer, International Management Advisors, accused him of stealing an IMA American Express card that had been issued to NBA guard Elfrid Payton and charging nearly $43,000 dollars to it for Uber rides over the course of roughly a year.

Pete Thamel calls him a “walking Ponzi scheme.”

Is it conceivable that a guy like that could have, say, falsified expense reports?

We’re not accusing him of it mind you. We’re just saying given what we know about Dawkins we can’t take anything at face value.