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

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Tim Fuller was kicked out of his Wake Forest open gyms four times during 1996 .

Wake Forest head coach Dave Odom deemed Fuller not good enough for his Demon Deacons .

The 6 -foot-4, 190-pound wide-court player spurned interest from Princeton , Lehigh and Bucknell to pursue a walk-on spot in the ACC .

Fuller has helped many like Jordan Clarkson morph from unknowns in Tulsa to draft picks out of Missouri .

Nico Fuller was a walk-on at Wake Forest and a marketing director at Nike .

He was recruited by Chris Paul to join Skip Prosser ’s coaching staff at Miami University .

Nico Harrison once held a mission to not just know Fuller , but develop a rapport with the Wake assistant who held Paul 's ear.

Harrison later earned the role of running the Dallas Mavericks ’ basketball operations.

Coach Tim Fuller is Nike 's East Coast guy.

He steered rising NBA players Rajon Rondo and Andre Iguodala through an offseason venture to China .

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