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Former CAA Basketball Agent Andre Buck Establishes Arete Sports Agency

A few days ago, I received an email from a gentleman named Jeffrey Lynds, who stated that he works with basketball agent Andre Buck at a company named Arete Sports Agency (which was created by Buck).  Lynds asked that I take down and remove any tags related to Andre Buck joining Artizen Management or Derrick W. […]

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Dionte Christmas Wants Lavoy Allen To Choose Andre Buck

Temple University earned a #7 seed in the 2011 NCAA Tournament and knocked off a weak #10 Penn State basketball team in the round of 64 of the Tourny.  Unfortunately for the Temple Owls, they had to match-up against #2 San Diego State University in the next round and lost 71-64.  One of Temple’s stars […]

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Agent Selection Scenarios: Texas Basketball

I thought that Texas was going to lose first round to Oakland, but only because I believed that Oakland was extremely underrated.  Oakland ended up putting up a good fight, but lost 85-81 to the Longhorns.  Fast forward to the round of 32, and Texas went down in a heart breaker to the Arizona Wildcats.  Now with […]

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Doron Perkins’ Switch From Bernie Lee To Andre Buck

A battle may be brewing between Bernie Lee and Andre Buck.  Andre Buck worked with CAA for a while before recently leaving the behemoth to set up his own shingles. In his first year doing things on his own, he was able to wrap up Hassan Whiteside, a big early entry center who was a […]

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Is Creative Artists Agency Unstoppable?

After reading the article I wrote yesterday on CAA’s acquisition of CSMG’s President, Henry Thomas, and all of his clients, I realized that I did not spend enough time talking about the implications of this move on the sports agent industry as a whole.  CSMG wis probably gone for good, but what exactly does it […]

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Shabbat Shalom: Friday Wrap-Up (6/26/09)

The New York Yankees love the Jews.  I am down in South Florida for the weekend.  It is nice to see part of my family…a five hour drive is not the worst thing in the world.  I am turning in a paper for my Business Organizations class on Monday.  The topic: Duties of Sports Agents […]

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Why Did Jason Thompson Pick Andre Buck?

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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NBA Draft Signing Update

Aaron Goodwin – Terrence Williams, Demar DeRozan Aaron Mintz (Priority) – Tyrese Rice, Jeff Adrien Andre Buck (CAA) – Dionte Christmas, DaJuan Summers Andy Miller (ASM Sports) – B.J. Mullens, Daniel Hackett, Eric Maynor, Alonzo Gee, Rudy Mbemba, Robert Vaden Arn Tellem – Wayne Ellington, Gerald Henderson Austin Walton (Dynasty) – Terrance Woodbury Bernie Lee […]

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NBA Draft Signing Update

Aaron Goodwin – Terrence Williams Andre Buck (CAA) – Dionte Christmas, DaJuan Summers Andy Miller (ASM Sports) – B.J. Mullens, Daniel Hackett, Eric Maynor Arn Tellem – Wayne Ellington Bill Duffy (BDA Sports) – Brandon Jennings, Hasheem Thabeet, Darren Collison Brad Ames (Priority) – Ben Woodside Brian Elfus (Elfus & Siegel Management) – Connor Atchley, […]

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Could CAA’s Dominance Be Threatened By A Merger?

This weekend, Creative Artists Agency (CAA) has a shot at having 11 of its clients selected in the first-round of the NFL Draft.  There are only 32 picks in the first-round.  CAA’s dominance in football is downright scary, but the company also has a very strong presence in other major American sports.  Their basketball division […]