Isiah Thomas of the Detroit Pistons said...

Isiah Thomas of the Detroit Pistons said that when he was being sought by colleges as a basketball prospect, he was offered $50,000, a car and a home for his mother by an assistant coach at a Midwestern school.

Thomas, who eventually went to Indiana University, declined to name the school.

Meanwhile, Charles Barkley of the Philadelphia 76ers, who was quoted earlier this week as saying he was offered money by Auburn boosters to stay in school for his senior year, said a reporter apparently had misunderstood him.

The Philadelphia Daily News reported that Barkley said in an interview that Auburn boosters regularly came by to shake his hand “and put money in it” and that he thought “nothing was wrong with it.”