The easiest agent-player projection concerning players who are sure to be selected in the 2013 NBA Draft (pending their decision to leave school early) involves Indiana’s Cody Zeller. Zeller, a 20-year old center, is currently a top 10 pick on DraftExpress.com’s and NBADraft.net’s Mock Drafts. He is only a sophomore, but based on his very […]
The following is a guest contribution from Heather Brittany (@HeatherBrit). Heather is currently a law student at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles and alum at the University of Southern California. I know, you all are dying to get your hands on my John David Booty autographed football, but I’ll never part with it – and […]
NBA prospect Anthony Davis is the extremely likely number one overall pick in the 2011 NBA Draft. The NCAA National Champion center/forward from the University of Kentucky had been going through a lengthy vetting process of agents, with the assistance of his father Anthony Davis, Sr., until late last week when he finally announced that he […]
It is fair to say that it has been a wild year for basketball agent Johnny Foster. At first, it appeared that Foster was on his way to a somewhat quiet, but solid, group of new prospects to represent. He signed Darryl “Truck” Bryant of West Virginia and Julian Mavunga of Miami Ohio. Neither player was listed on the […]
South Florida-based basketball agent Corey Dean has signed basketball players Eloy Vargas and Travis Hyman. Dean is a graduate of Florida State University. In 2010, he started his own company, Insight Sports Management. Soon thereafter, he went on to partner with a company named UMG Global (where he is the Vice President), which is a sports agency […]
Yesterday, it was announced that C. Lamont Smith has established a new sports management company named, Above the Rim Management. “Above the Rim Management represents the next chapter in my career, and I am excited about the future,” exclaims C. Lamont Smith. The new sports management firm will focus on professional basketball players and coaches as the sister […]
On April 9, I reported that NBPA Certified Agent and founding member/president of Capital Sports LLC Johnny Foster signed Darryl “Truck” Bryant of West Virginia and Julian Mavunga of Miami Ohio. Then on May 29, I wrote that Mavunga left Foster and signed with HOF Player Representatives. Foster stated that he let Julian go because they were not seeing eye to eye. And recently, Foster also […]
Former Miami Ohio basketball player Julian Mavunga has signed with HOF Player Representatives. Mavunga, who just finished his senior season, averaged 16.4 points, 9 rebounds, 3.4 assists, and 36.9 minutes player per game in his senior season. DraftExpress.com currently ranks Mavunga as the 53rd best senior in the country (up 9 slots since I last covered him). […]
At one point-in-time, basketball agent Sam Porter was affiliated with SportStars, the company that led in the number of clients selected in the 2012 NFL Draft with a total of 20 (2 in the first round). Recently, Porter’s practice was acquired by Exclusive Sports Group (ESG), which is run by President and CEO Andrew “Buddy” Baker. […]
Young basketball agent Terrance Doyle attracted a lot of attention after signing Syracuse’s Scoop Jardine and former Mississippi State forward Arnett Moultrie. Jardine has a shot of playing in the NBA and Moultrie will very likely be playing at the highest level in the United States. Unfortunately for Doyle, both signings were short-lived. Jardine left […]