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Black Market

An Insider's Journey into the High-Stakes World of College Basketball

by Merl Code
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From a former college basketball player and Executive at Nike, a "riveting" (Sports Illustrated) insider's account into the business of college basketball exposes the corrupt and racist systems that exploit young athletes and offers a new way forward
For Merl Code, basketball was life.
In college he played point guard for Clemson before turning pro. Later, when he pivoted to marketing, he found himself thrust into a startling world of profit-driven college basketball programs. He realized that the NCAA's amateurism rules could be used to exploit young athletes, and athletes of color in particular.

Now, for the first time, Code will share his side of the explosive story of college basketball's dark reality—a system that begins with young talent in AAU programs and culminates at the highest levels of the NBA.

Propulsive, urgent, and eye-opening, Black Market exposes the truth to offer a more just way forward for both colleges and athletes.

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    March 1, 2022

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      • ISBN: 9780369718860

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      • ISBN: 9780369718860
      • File size: 690 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      October 1, 2021

      A Clemson University point guard-turned-basketball pro, Code hoped to build relationships with young athletes when he began working in marketing, eventually becoming a director at Nike. That's when he began to realize how college basketball--including some of its most fable coaches--bent the NCAA's amateurism rules to exploit athletes and particularly athletes of color and found himself not just caught in the middle but playing fall guy in a bribery scandal. With a 150,000-copy first printing.

      Copyright 2021 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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