Sports Business, Sports Law, Sports Negotiations, NCAA Rules
Last week we posted our 2011 NBA Draft Listing Of Players Selected And Their Agents. While the list includes the standard NBA agent names like Arn Tellem, Bill Duffy, Rob Pelinka, Happy Walters, Leon Rose, etc. it also has some lesser known people on it. One of them, Austin Walton, was featured in a recent…
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This is an awesome week for me. I am traveling across the country, from Pennsylvania, to Jacksonville, Florida, and finally to Bloomington, Indiana, to speak about being a sports agent. One of the main things that people want to hear is the story of how I got into the agent profession at such a young…
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Immediately following the 2009 NBA Draft, Darren Rovell of CNBC, released a list of the lottery picks, their agents, and the money that each player will receive over the next three years of his rookie contract (before a team may extend that contract for an additional year). The slot values are much lower than what…
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“The sports agent business has become so corrupt — I would not encourage anyone to try to become an agent right now.” – Legendary NBA agent David Falk (WSJ.com, 4/22). Is Falk jealous of the new crop of agents’ successes? Or does he present a realistic view of the current climate of athlete representation?
