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Enes Kanter, Kentucky's top recruit from Turkey, allegedly received more than $100,000 in cash and benefits from his professional team there, which could jeopardize his chance to play for the university, according to a New York Times report. The Times spoke with the general manger of Fenerbahce Ulker, Nedim Karakas, who admitted that the club had been giving banking and housing records to the NCAA that showed Kanter did receive incentives. Among the alleged benefits were housing and food for his family, pocket money, an initial payment of $19,800 and a salary to Kanter of more than $6,500 a month in his last season.
"I am sorry for telling this for Enes, but we cannot lie if someone asks the whole story, we cannot hide," Karakas told the Times. He also added that the amount given to Kanter and his family in four years was somewhere between $100,000 and $150,000.
If Karakas is telling the truth, there is a good chance Kanter would be ineligible to play for the Wildcats.
A similar scenario occurred in March 2009, when Yahoo! Sports reported that the University of Connecticut violated NCAA rules in the recruitment of Nate Miles, who was allegedly given various benefits from an agent. The investigation is still ongoing.
The Times was unsuccessful in obtaining a comment from Kentucky coach John Calipari, whose teams in the past have been under hot water for violating NCAA rules. However, the coach did tell The Sporting News back in April that rumors regarding Kanter were untrue.
"There was no money, from what we're seeing, what the kid is saying and the family, and what Nike is saying," Calipari told The Sporting News. "There's a lot of misinformation out there. You've got people talking about it that don't know, just heard a rumor."
A year ago, Kanter arrived in America and began bouncing around prep schools. According to Karakas, Kanter was being advised by a man named Max Ergul who he said was responsible for Kanter leaving Fenerbahce. Ergul has denied being an agent in the past, despite an article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that described him as the agent for NBA forward Ersan Ilyasova. Karakas admitted that he was angry with Kanter for leaving the team, which spent time developing him over the years.
Kanter was expected to play one season at Kentucky and then become a lottery pick in the 2011 NBA Draft.
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