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Jay-Z has a stake in the New Jersey Nets, so when he visited the Kentucky locker room last Sunday following a Wildcat victory over North Carolina, that could have violated NBA rules. NBA teams cannot have contact with non-draft eligible draft players.

No one really believes that the NBA is that concerned about Jay-Z's presence in that locker room, but a few college basketball purists did not like it. For one it creates a recruiting advantage for UK coach John Calipari. And that's what most people don't like.

One is former CBS announcer Billy Packer who said this week, "You control your locker room, and therefore you know who comes in and who doesn’t come in. Without question, that is something that never should have happened."

As for Calipari's previous NCAA violations, Packer had this to say, "John walked away from that, and the fact is that he was not implicated in either one of those decisions."

"But you know, you walk on a path like that, and it’s something you’d better be very careful of."

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