Mohamed Bamba's brother accuses the basketball star of NCAA rules violations

Updated Friday, June 30: 247Sports.com's story that includes Greer Love's statement on his relationship with Mohamed Bamba has some more context on Ibrahim Johnson's background.

"After a series of efforts made by his family to keep Ibrahim Johnson on a clear path during Bamba's recruitment, in January of this year, Johnson was completely removed from the recruiting process, after it became apparent to the family that he was steadfast in his search for personal gain and unwilling to abide by Bamba's wishes of a clean, NCAA-compliant recruitment," the story reports. "Johnson has racked up a series of charges, including three in March: hit-and-run in Florida, forgery, falsification, petty theft, and possession of drugs in Ohio, and possession of drugs in South Carolina. … After a series of efforts made by his family to keep Ibrahim Johnson on a clear path during Bamba's recruitment, in January of this year, Johnson was completely removed from the recruiting process, after it became apparent to the family that he was steadfast in his search for personal gain and unwilling to abide by Bamba's wishes of a clean, NCAA-compliant recruitment."

The brother of Mohamed Bamba, the Westtown School product who's headed to Texas as one of the nation's top basketball recruits, took to Facebook on Wednesday to accuse Bamba of taking cash and gifts from an adviser on financial matters.

In a profanity-laced video that lasted more than 22 minutes, Ibrahim Johnson said he wanted to "expose" Bamba and "tell the true story."

"This basketball recruitment [stuff]… it's a dirty game," Johnson said.

The central figure in the story is Greer Love, a vice-president at the Detroit-based Huron Capital Group financial firm. Back in 2008, Love started an after-school basketball program at the elementary school in New York that Bamba attended at the time. A PAPrepLive.com story earlier this year referred to Love as "a mentor" for Bamba.

Johnson used less polite terms to describe Love's relationship with Bamba.

"He was Mo's teacher back in fourth grade or whatever, but long story short, now he's Mo's pimp," Johnson said. "The illegal stuff … the [stuff] that the NCAA will prosecute you for, he's been doing that [stuff] for Mo."

That "stuff," Johnson claimed, includes paying Bamba's credit card bills and some travel costs, and buying a television and orthopedic inserts for Bamba's shoes.

"He just catered to Mohamed and won his friendship over, then brainwashed [him]… to think your family is bad for you," Johnson said.

Love responded to the allegations in an interview Thursday with 247Sports.com. He said what he did was above board, thanks in part to guidance from an unnamed former compliance officer at schools in the Big Ten and Big 12.

"Mo's got way too much to lose to take any chances on anything even remotely impermissible," Love said. "With my 9-year, pre-existing relationship on the line with Mo personally, let alone his college eligibility, I took several additional measures to ensure that Mo was fully compliant every step of the way."

Johnson contended that it all started when Love took him and Bamba on a trip to Orlando that was presented at first as a vacation, but turned out to be something else.

"The whole time, we were getting sized up," Johnson said, adding that some of the "NBA guys" who met with Bamba and Johnson were "trying to get Mo to transfer schools."

At the same time, Johnson said, Lowe "showcased my weaknesses and showed why I wasn't good for business."

Some time thereafter, Johnson decided he wanted to become a sports agent.

"I could do this – represent my brother, get commission on my brother," Johnson said. "When I brought it up to my brother, my brother was so happy."

Love, however, was not – and he flew Johnson out to Detroit to make that point clear in person.

"He told me, 'Man, I don't want you to be a sports agent, because I already have people lined up for your brother – and I'm already going to line him up with sports agents,' " Johnson said.

But somewhere along the line, Bamba changed tack – and soon thereafter, a major rift emerged between him and Johnson.

"All hell broke loose," Johnson claimed. "He [Bamba] stopped being transparent with me; he stopped doing everything."

Texas' athletic department issued a statement to Yahoo Sports in which the school affirmed that Bamba remains NCAA-eligible.

"Mo's amateur status was previously reviewed and final certified by the NCAA Eligibility Center," the statement said. "The NCAA has not informed us of any pending issues or eligibility concerns at this time regarding Mo. If there are further questions, we certainly will cooperate with the NCAA to the fullest."

After recording the video, Johnson posted a comment underneath it asserting that Bamba "didn't get money from Texas. I want to make that clear so that there isn't any NCAA sanctions on them."