{"id":614179,"date":"2018-04-17T17:26:03","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T21:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=614179"},"modified":"2026-07-26T00:21:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T04:21:56","slug":"sports-agent-impressions-of-college-basketball-landscape-led-me-to-contact-ncsu-about-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=614179","title":{"rendered":"Sports agent: &#8216;Impressions&#8217; of college basketball landscape led me to contact NCSU about Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/sports-agent-impressions-of-college-basketball-landscape-led-me-to-contact-ncsu-about-smith\/17492987\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/colleges\/ncsu\/2017\/02\/25\/16551141\/2017ncsubbvuva-66-uid14880545721277-160x106.jpg\" alt=\"Wolfpack drops home finale 70-55 to Cavaliers\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>When an FBI investigation resulted in the September arrests of 10 agents, coaches and businessman with basketball ties, Wilmington-based sports agent Gary Shipman wasn&#8217;t surprised. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/sports-agent-impressions-of-college-basketball-landscape-led-me-to-contact-ncsu-about-smith\/17492987\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/sports-agent-impressions-of-college-basketball-landscape-led-me-to-contact-ncsu-about-smith\/17492987\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Sports agent: &#039;Impressions&#039; of college basketball landscape led me to contact NCSU about Smith\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When an FBI investigation resulted in the September arrests of 10 agents, coaches and businessman with basketball ties, Wilmington-based sports agent Gary Shipman wasn&#8217;t surprised. &#8230;read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-614179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-n-c-state-wolfpack","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-81-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=614179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1915211,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614179\/revisions\/1915211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=614179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=614179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=614179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}