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30 for 30 Podcasts

THE BAG GAME Episode 2: Nichole and the Bag Man

30 for 30 Podcasts

ESPN

Sports

4.59.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Billy’s mom Nichole lets her son focus on improving his game. Meanwhile she fields all the onlookers who want Billy on their team. To play for a top college, Billy couldn’t accept any money or he’d ruin his eligibility. Yet offers to circumvent that abound: aka, the bag game. In the college recruitment dance, Billy gets his top pick and Nicole makes a connection that promises to secure the family’s finances. But Billy’s dream is short-lived. And Nicole’s dealings later get federal investigators’ attention. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Previously on the bag game.

0:03.0

A lot of people love me for doing what I do.

0:07.0

I mean, I don't think I had NBA dreams because to be honest with you, I didn't think they were real.

0:12.0

My back wheel just got stuck and we start spinning out.

0:15.0

Somebody had called the NCAA anonymously

0:19.0

and told them like they should investigate me.

0:30.0

On the night of November 14th, 2017, Billy Preston and the rest of the University of Kansas Jayhawks were at the United

0:36.0

Center in Chicago.

0:38.0

Game 2 from Chicago, we welcome you back to the State Farm Champions Classic. And two of the real blue bloods of the sport.

0:46.4

Number seven Kentucky and number four Kansas.

0:50.3

And for Billy it would be his first regular season game as a Jayhawk, after having

0:56.5

set out the first game for missing curfew.

0:59.7

Lawrence Journal World Sports reporter Matt Tate was in Chicago to cover the game. in the media room before the game you started hearing a little bit about

1:13.7

Billy's not going to play and all of a sudden you're trying to figure out why not.

1:19.7

An hour before tip-off the Jayhawks released a statement from head coach Bill Self.

1:26.0

It read, on Saturday, Billy was involved in a single vehicle incident on campus.

1:32.8

There were no injuries but Billy's car sustained damage.

1:36.8

After I learned about the incident,

1:38.6

I reported it to our administration.

1:41.4

The administration determined that we needed a clearer financial picture specific to the vehicle

1:46.4

So we decided to hold him out of tonight's game and will continue to do that until the review is complete.

1:55.0

This was the first anyone in the media was hearing about Billy's car accident the previous weekend.

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