• The NCAA suspended the Memphis basketball star James Wiseman for 12 games after he and his family accepted $11,500 from Memphis coach Penny Hardaway for “moving expenses” in 2017.
  • The NCAA is also making Wiseman donate $11,500 to a charity of his choice.
  • The sports world immediately mocked the NCAA for its punishment, saying there was irony in making an unpaid college athlete donate a large sum of money after his family accepted money two years ago.
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The NCAA on Wednesday suspended the Memphis basketball star James Wiseman for 12 games after he and his family accepted money from head coach Penny Hardaway in 2017.

Wiseman, the potential No. 1 pick in the NBA draft in June, initially played after the NCAA’s injunction, as the university pushed back against the NCAA. The school relented last week and ruled Wiseman ineligible.

The NCAA alleged that Wiseman and his family took $11,500 in “moving expenses” from Hardaway, who was not Memphis’ head coach at the time, during Wiseman’s junior year of high school.

In addition, the NCAA on Wednesday ruled that Wiseman must donate $11,500 to a charity of his choice.

The latter punishment was immediately mocked by the sports world for, well, obvious reasons.

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Wiseman will be eligible to return to the floor in January.