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 […]
Category: NBA Players
NBA Good Guy
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]
NBA News & Notes
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 […]
This post will serve as part II to the original post: Want to be an NBA agent? created on January 12, 2006. The impetus for creating another post on this topic was formed by an article from SportingNews.com [Ready for the big time]. Here are some of the important points in the article that may […]
D. Wade Will See The Money
But has been very undervalued by many companies in the past. Take for instance the deal that he signed with Converse straight out of Marquette [Converse and Dwayne Wade]…come on Sports Business Radio…learn how to spell Dwyane! Anyway, Wade is only making $400,000 per year (only…ha) from his contract with Converse, which is now owned […]
Leave out D. Wade from this list…he is still a bonifide superstar. Here is your list of nightmare clients for the week of June 11th-June 18th (I am seriously contemplating making this a weekly column updated every Sunday…comment if you think I should): 1. Ben Roethlisberger Ben takes the proverbial cake this week as he […]
In a former post, I posed a question as the title of a post: Can Olympic/Student Athletes Obtain Endorsements? After using Jeremy Bloom as a case-in-point, the answer was found to be a decisive no. But why are student-athletes allowed to compete in boxing matches while they are in college and accumulate $25,000 prizes, while […]
According a post by the Sports Law Blog, the Sports Agents for Tyrus Thomas (formerly of LSU) have been trying to coerce a major NBA draft ranking website into changing their listing and bump up their client (Mr. Thomas) up from his current position of #7. While it is true that many people are talking […]
Kobe Bryant meet Game Theory
Between school, work, updating this blog, and hard-core partying, I have had little time this semester to read for pleasure. I just reached page 117 of 342 in Basketball on Paper by Dean Oliver, and came across an interesting passage last night that I wanted to discuss. With a lot of hype over Kobe Bryant’s […]
A quick look at our recent hits chart shows a heavy increase in the daily exposure of this site. A lot of the new traffic is coming from referrals on search engines to the search query of “Mark Stevens.” Back on January 3rd, I decided to take a look at Basketball Agent Mark Stevens and […]