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Leon Rose Outside Of The Office

You may know Leon Rose as the agent who represents former first overall pick, Andrea Bargnani. You may also know him as the guy who is now in charge of CAA’s basketball division. What you may not know is that Mr. Rose loves coaching youths from his hometown in basketball.

Leon Rose has been coaching the 14-and-under South Jersey Maccabi basketball team since 2003, and has loved every minute of it. As a former varsity basketball player at Dickinson College, Rose knows what he is doing on the court. In fact, this year, his Maccabi team won the gold medal in the annual worldwide challenge [S.J. sports agent leads kids to championship].

For my non-Jewish readers, this is kind of a big deal. Every year, the Maccabi games are held in a different locale. Young Jews from around the world come to show off their athletic talent at these games. One of the sports played is basketball. Rose’s team, which included his son, Sam, won the gold medal match against Manhattan, New York by a 33 point margin.

The prize for winning the competition (other than gold medals)? Segana Diop had to take the entire team out to dinner, after promising a dinner on the house if they took home gold. I am sure that he treated them to something a little better than McDonalds.

-Darren Heitner

By Darren Heitner

Darren Heitner created Sports Agent Blog as a New Year's Resolution on December 31, 2005. Originally titled, "I Want To Be A Sports Agent," the website was founded with the intention of causing Heitner to learn more about the profession that he wanted to join, meet reputable individuals in the space and force himself to stay on top of the latest news and trends.

Heitner now runs Heitner Legal, P.L.L.C., which is a law firm with many practice areas, including sports law and contract law. Heitner has represented numerous athletes and sports agents as legal counsel. He has also served as an Adjunct Professor at Indiana University Bloomington from 2011-2014, where he created and taught a course titled, Sport Agency Management, which included subjects ranging from NCAA regulations to athlete agent certification and the rules governing the profession. Heitner serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law, where he teaches a Sports Law class that includes case law surrounding athlete agents and the NCAA rules.

2 replies on “Leon Rose Outside Of The Office”

Leon Rose, Allen Iverson: Please, please go to the front office and get Allen Iverson on the Lakers team. Allen would not mind coming off the bench for the Lakers–I am sure he just wants to win. I will almost guarantee with Allen they will for sure win at least two more back-to-back championships, I do not know him, he does not know me, I am just a true Michael Jordan/Phil Jackson/Kobe Bryant/Allen Iverson Fan; if they were in Timbuktu I would follow them. Please do not let a valuable player like Allen just be shuffled out of the league. Be upfront with him and let him know he will have to come off the bench, but PLEASE, PLEASE take him tothe Lakers. I have my own serious problems, but here I am rooting for a person who has millions and doesn’t care whether I eat or die. But for the sake of a good time in life following the NBA, I think he would add that extra ump to the Lakers. Allen would understand that it is Kobe’s team. JUST DO IT. GET HIM WITH THE LAKERS! PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE!

I do not know how many people I have to send this message to, but I will keep sending until someone listen.

Sincerely,

Andrea

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