The NBA Draft is this Thursday? Doesn’t it seem like there has been much less press/hype/coverage leading up to this year’s draft? There are no LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Dwight Howard, or Dwyane Wade caliber players in this year’s draft pool, but there are plenty of guys ready to contribute strong minutes in the NBA. […]
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Shaquille O’Neal is a great promoter. And in this day and age, is it incredibly easy to make one’s self visible through the use of social media. Sometimes, though, there are pitfalls (in addition to the downsides of releasing contract terms) of using these outlets. Such is the case of O’Neal, for one, who has […]
If there is one thing that many learned from this season’s NBA Playoffs, it is that Orlando Magic small forward Hedo Turkoglu is a great basketball player. Hedo and his agent Lon Babby have realized this and are using it to their advantage. Turkoglu opted out of his final year with the Magic and has […]
Want to know what it takes to land a professional athlete client? I am not the person you should be asking. The best practices for recruiting professional athletes can be found straight from the mouths of those who have made that very tough decision…the decision of picking a sports agent for representation. No one knows […]
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The picture to the right was taken of Derrick Rose during his one and only year as a Memphis Tiger. The quotes below show the 20 year old taking accountability for his actions and owning up for a dumb picture that he took in college. To me this sounds like an incident where Rose was partying […]
Just went through a very draining few days of the MLB Amateur Draft, and the fun is not over yet. We had some guys drop in the round selected because of signability issues, a couple of guys leave us, and we picked up a few new players to advise. It really is crazy how this […]
Going to be down in Miami for Super Bowl week? If you have not yet booked your flight and hotel, what are you waiting for? Not only will the city of Miami be celebrating the Super Bowl, but the weekend before, it will be hosting the Pro Bowl. I have already started working on the […]
Recently, I discussed the three main workouts that NBA teams are putting on for the top prospects in this year’s draft class. Teams are joining up on these workouts to cut the cost of doing them individually, which include the fixed costs of hosting the event itself, flying the players out to the workout, putting […]
Jonathan Givony of DraftExpress.com recently sat down with basketball agent, David Falk, following Givony’s review of David’s new book, The Bald Truth. Givony first probed Falk to answer questions regarding his book: what motivated Falk to write The Bald Truth, whether he took peoples sensitivities into consideration when writing it, feedback since publishing, etc. He […]
Austin Walton, Dynasty‘s Director of Basketball Operations, originally turned me on to the website, ProPlayerVideo.com. He told me that many NBA/NBDL GMs, Assistant GMs, and scouts use the service to check out film on players who they might have not had a solid chance of evaluating in the past. Additionally, he told me that the […]