What motivated a college shooting guard to shave points to benefit a Las Vegas-based bettor?

Money.

University of New Orleans starting shooting guard Cedquavious Hunter admitted to shaving points, a broad label for manipulating the outcome of games for betting purposes, for only one reason.

“I was money hungry,” Hunter told “Good Morning America” in a televised interview on Monday. “Fast cash.”

Hunter (who also goes by “Dae Dae”) became a father before learning of the proposition to make $5,000, which the NCAA discovered by searching text message records. He said because “the school wasn’t paying me,” he made the choice to get involved in the illegal plot to miss shots.

“Skip that question,” Hunter first said in the interview, lifting out of his seat before returning to say “basically

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