The salary cap for individual NBA teams in the 2006-2007 season has been set today at $53.135 million. The increase is $3.6 million above this past year’s cap. For a luxury tax to be placed on a team (the team would have to pay a dollar for every dollar above the number value), that team […]
Once new agents start to accumulate clients and everything seems to be perfect, novice Sports Agents often begin to see the gloomy side of the business. Right when it seems like your agency/independent practice is going to start seeing a profit, you may start to encounter the “fire letter.“ As a novice agent, you have […]
Seth Mnookin is coming out with a book tomorrow that looks to be a good read: Feeding the Monster : How Money, Smarts, and Nerve Took a Team to the Top. Today, Mr. Mnookin has realease his last preview of the book by highlighting the negotiation between agent Scott Boras and Theo Epstein over Johnny […]
By now, who has not heard about Eddie Griffin? In March, the Minnesota Timberwolves center was arrested for causing a car accident while being intoxicated…and masturbating [Griffin served with civil suit]. Yeah, not such a great thing for the good old image. Those who were injured during this incident would have contacted a car accident […]
Sports Business Radio has just released its first annual Top-10 “Brightest Minds” in Sports List. I am not quite sure what the criteria was to formulate the list, but it seems to give some good descriptions for the people that are mentioned. I happen to find it interesting that George Steinbrenner bought the Yankees for […]
This past Sunday, I did an Agent Spotlight on agent Mark Rodgers. One of his clients that was displayed is a man named Chris Huseby, an 11th round pick made by the Chicago Cubs in this years MLB draft. Well via Deadspin, who has linked to a Baseball America report, I was able to find […]
While I know that this story has absolutely nothing to do with the business of sports or Sports Agents, I will still provide a link to it since we have covered funny mascot stories in the past [Stanford…the Harvard of the West…with a 0.157 alcohol level…]. Has the Stanford Cardinal been outdone by Benny the […]
Some positive news to go along with what I hope is a great 4th of July for everyone. I’ll keep it short and sweet and allow you to click on the link to read about the good side of the sports world that we often forget about [NBA Good Guy: Andrei Kirilenko]. [tags]nba, kirilenko[/tags]
15 trades overall in the NBA draft. The Knicks and Trail Blazers are getting hammered for their decisions, but we’ll leave that discussion to the so-called analysts. The fact that there were 15 trades in the draft brings me thinking back to an article by the Sports Law Blog [The Legality of Oral Promises by […]
Palm City, Florida. Not only the home of the great Phil Heitner (my dad), but also a place that agent Mark Rodgers calls his home. At 47 years old, Rodgers is an independent sports agent that works out of an annex to his home. I forgot to mention that the man boasts a list of […]