Meet Providence assistant Tim Fuller, the ‘most feared’ basketball recruiter you’ve never heard of

Tim Fuller has done just about everything in the basketball space. (AP Photo/Ed Zurga)

Troy Thompson couldn’t be reached. He didn’t want to be reached.

The father of prodigious twin basketball players, Thompson’s voicemail warned interested parties not to leave messages on his personal line throughout the spring of 2021 — no matter the blue bloods or prestigious prep schools seeking his identical marvels, Amen and Ausar. After two weeks of evading calls, the elder Thompson even told the man tasked with recruiting an initial class for the upstart, deeply funded Overtime Elite he was taking his boys on a family vacation. They were unavailable for any chat, let alone any type of face-to-face.

Troy Thompson believed his own eyes, that his twins flashed such elite talent during youth camps they could shape into top-10 picks in the 2023 NBA Draft. After claiming Florida’s Class 4A state championship as juniors the previous winter, they hungered for one final gauntlet before breaking down the league’s front door. They could have stayed in state and joined Leonard Hamilton’s Seminoles. Or flocked to Kentucky for John Calipari’s fabled one-and-done routine. Overtime Elite? “At first, the boys were like, ‘No …,’” Thompson told Yahoo Sports.

That vacation wasn’t merely time in the Arizona sun, but a visit to powerhouse Hillcrest Prep in Phoenix, a clandestine itinerary Overtime’s fearless recruiter uncovered from his contacts dotting basketball’s winding grapevine. Sand was slipping through his hourglass. The man punched another dial into Thompson’s cell and persuaded the boys’ father to meet for lunch when the family returned home to Fort Lauderdale.

At first, Troy Thompson left the twins at home, a king coming to the table with only his queen, his wife, Maya. Overtime Elite’s head of basketball operations, Brandon Williams, made the trip alongside this shadow, this voice that had been promising the twins the world. The man, now 46, dressed in a designer sweatsuit from a collection so vast he could wear a different set every day for two months. He sported one of his 250 pairs of…

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Publish date : 2024-09-26 15:38:50

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