Dick Vitale falls for viral Braylon Mullins NIL auction post duping UConn fans

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Braylon Mullins likely could make a lot of NIL money this offseason if he wanted to be a high-profile college basketball transfer.

After all, he was an NCAA Tournament hero for the UConn Huskies.

Of course, Mullins might rather go to the NBA or stay in Storrs than transfer anywhere else.

That hasn't stopped fake posts from going viral on social media.

And one prominent fake poster duped ESPN's Dick Vitale.

Here's the whole interaction on X, with the key point being that the original post isn't real information:

That original account, Shane Tuttle, has a bio that includes "Everything I do is satire" in it.

Vitale clearly didn't look at the bio.

It's a tough reality of social media in 2026. People want clout. Sometimes they make stuff up. Some accounts have fake posts as their whole premise.

Most fans recognize what's going on, but sometimes, things look very real despite being fake.

In this case, it's not real. But it has plenty of fans thinking that Mullins is leaning very far in to the new college sports reality.

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