According to a lawsuit filed in court, Phoenix Suns star and 2003 Rookie of the Year Amare Stoudemire accepted travel money and expenses from an agent while still in high school.

Robert Gadson, the National Basketball Players Association's director of security and agent administration, said Thursday that agent John Wolf could face action by the union depending on the results of an investigation.

"Our rules stipulate that an agent cannot give an athlete anything of value until that athlete has signed a standard player-agent contract with him," Gadson said. "That's basically the extent of our rules. The athlete, if he's an amateur, is not under the regulation of the players association at that point."

Wolf sued in U.S. District Court in Minnesota in October, contending he had a repayment agreement with Stoudemire, but had only received back $10,000 of the $206,069 he doled out between Oct. 1, 2001, and Jan. 3, 2003.

The lawsuit alleges that Wolf paid Stoudemire $121,909 of the total in cash advances for hotels, flights, car rentals and other expenses between Oct. 1, 2001, and April 24, 2002, while the 6-foot-10 forward was a senior at Orlando (Fla.) Cypress Creek High School.

Of that total, $105,590 was made before Stoudemire signed his agent-client contract with Wolf.