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Report: Middleman Identified In Will Wade FBI Wire Tap Conversation With Christian Dawkins

by TD Staff Reporter

March 28, 201946 Comments

Stephen Lew-USA TODAY Sports

Yahoo Sports is reporting that the middleman that Will Wade was talking about during a wiretapped conversation with Christian Dawkins was Baton Rouge native Shannon Forman.

The report states that LSU freshman Javonte Smart considered Forman as a "mentor."

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His name is Shannon Forman, a fixture in Baton Rouge basketball circles and someone who LSU freshman guard Javonte Smart referred to as "my mentor." Documents viewed by Yahoo Sports show a link between Forman and Christian Dawkins, the aspiring agent and recently convicted felon whom Wade was talking to on the call that has ultimately led to his suspension.

In a wiretapped 2017 phone call with Dawkins first reported by Yahoo Sports earlier this month, Wade makes mention of "Shannon" as the intermediary for his "strong-ass offer" for a recruit. Multiple sources have confirmed to Yahoo Sports that the reference is to Forman, who has been labeled both a trainer and coach of current LSU standout Smart — the recruit in question on the wiretap. Read more.

Forman and LSU officials declined to comment, according to the report.

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Deplorable Duke

His name is Robert Paulson.

Reply•54 months

txtiger21

His name is Robert Paulson

54 months

HueyP

No deal facts it’s totally irrelevant. Show me the deal, otherwise STFU.

Reply•54 months

toothfxr92

Calipari is the leak...Dawkins played for Calipari at Memphis...Calipari mad because Smart chose LSU over Kentucky

Reply•54 months

BigRaggedyTiger

Release the tape

Reply•54 months

Tiger4life5803

Calling it now...Javonte Smart and this dude were intimate together and Will Wade is banging someone too. Just wait.

Reply•54 months

Does ANYONE really believe the top recruits in the top recruiting classes, nationwide, aren't paid off in some way, shape, or form?

Reply•54 months

KCT

All you have to do is check the parking area outside of athletic dorms all over the country. Looks like a new car dealership. LSU is being targeted because they have been one of the little dogs in college basketball. If a minimum of 25 schools are involved, why are we only hearing about LSU? Why do people like Dick Vitale go scorched earth on LSU, but make excuses for wrongdoing at places like Kansas and North Carolina?

54 months

reauxl tigers

He dindu nuffin.

Reply•54 months

GeauxTigers0107

frick man. We're gonna lose the best damn BB coach this university has had in a long fkn time. Sucks to no end.

Reply•54 months

LesnarF5

So...........? They have nothing on WW. LSU lucked out getting WW they need to keep him and ride out any BS from the pussy NCAA. At least you have IMO a top 10 coach. There's not much as far as basketball coaches out there at least not as good as what we have in Wade.

Reply•54 months

JCinBAMA

So the season will all be**************************************************** and Wade is gone.

Reply•54 months

BigPerm30

Your sister is naked in the bedroom waiting for you.

54 months

Hangit

Congrats on hiring that dick with ears to coach your team. Will he get to keep the wheels on his new house?

54 months

BigPerm30

A full paid tuition is a “strong arse offer”. What’s the problem?

Reply•54 months

CDawson

And strong for the family because they get to stay home and watch him play. They better have more than what has been released. Nothing so far has been suspension or discipline worthy.

54 months

lsutigermall

I can’t agree more. Plus, he’s close to his family and mentor. IMO, each of these kids should have an assigned mentor.

54 months

tigersquad89

Don’t forget the meal pass

54 months

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JackieTreehorn

His name was Shannon Forman

Reply•54 months

SouthernInsanity

100% proof.... That Yahoo Sports is gonna drag this out by only leaving breadcrumbs till after the tourney is over. Someone at Yahoo Sports must gotten cut from the cash flow of college basketball.

Reply•54 months

Volvagia

The fact that this nugget targeted at Smart is coming out the day before the Sweet 16 appearance 100% tells me there is a game being played here

54 months

SomeLSUguy

Oh, could you image the shite that will come out if/when we get to the Final Four... or the Championship. Yahoo would give a left nut to have LSU make it to the championship game so they can try to destroy all that is good the day before. Any and everything will get dropped on these kids. And it is a damn shame because this season is supposed to be about our guys and Wayde Sims.

54 months

Jumbo_Gumbo

So what?

Reply•54 months

the paradigm

Welp, it was fun while it lasted.

Reply•54 months

Thorny

The partial transcript still shows that Wade was telling Dawkins that he would NOT pay Forman what he wanted to apparently deliver Smart to LSU.

Reply•54 months

CDawson

But but Joe said Wade wouldn’t meet. Clown

54 months

HueyP

Middleman for what? Convince the kid a full ride at LSU and getting to play in front of his friends and family was better than going hundreds of miles away to Kentucky?

Reply•54 months

chew4219

Shannon Forman could ball. Those Southern Lab teams were stacked.

Reply•54 months

g money 22

was that when victor tarver and Marcus spears played? I remember watching a district game when I was in the 2nd or 3rd grade. between lab and Christian life at cla. spears vs clayton. hell.of a game

54 months

Rabbs and QStick

Christian Life wasn't in that district back then.

54 months

chew4219

Victor Tarver could play too! I’m pretty sure that Lab team beat Glenn Oaks with Lester Earl.

54 months

PotatoChip

Pat Forde is a pos.

Reply•54 months

BayouBengal99

Boy these MFers are desperate to change public opinion on LSU and WW. I mean desperate. They have nothing absolutely freakn nothing and won’t get it either. These classless human beings are going to look pretty damn dumb at the end of this. So basically what these dipshits believe is that Wade cheated bc Smart went to an AAU team that funnels kids to Kentucky but instead he ends up at LSU? What a hate job this is. I wonder where this so called reporter is from? Maybe he needs to be investigated, sure sounds fishy to me.

Reply•54 months

Jude

Agree with all you said.

54 months

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