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NBA Players Sports Agents

2024 NBA Draft Player/Agent Pairings

Welcome to another year of providing the player/agent pairings as well as some notes for those selected in the NBA Draft. Notes Round 1

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Contract Negotiation NBA Players

Tyler Herro And The Miami Heat Agree To 4-Year, $130M Extension

Miami Heat guard Tyler Herro has agreed to a four-year, $130 million contract extension. Herro is currently represented by Jeff Schwartz and Mike Lindeman of Excel Sports Management. Following the 2022 season Herro was named the 2022 NBA Sixth Man of the Year and averaged 20.7 PPG, 5.0 RPG, and 4.0 APG. With the October […]

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Sports Agents Sports Business

Excel Sports Management Promotes Stirling Eads And Colleen Garrity To Senior Vice President

Stirling Eads has been promoted to Senior Vice President at Excel Sports Management. Stirling joined Excel in 2011 as Client Relations Manager and was promoted up the ranks to her most recent title of Vice President of Marketing. Prior to Excel, Stirling was with NBC Sports for five years working in digital sports and NBC […]

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Friday Wrap-Up

Shabbat Shalom: Friday Wrap-up (6/10/2016)

I was supposed to be in New York today, but my case settled as I was boarding a plane. So I’m in not-so-sunny South Florida to enjoy this weekend. Then, I’m off to Las Vegas on Wednesday and California on Saturday. I’ll be out of the office (but always connected) for a full eight days. […]

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Headline NFL Players Sports Business

Falcons QB Matt Ryan Signs with Excel Sports Management For Marketing

Atlanta Falcons QB Matt Ryan has signed on with agents Alan Zucker and Mark Steinberg of Excel Sports Management for his marketing work and off-the-field endeavors, according to SBJ’s Liz Mullen. Ryan has decided to join on with Zucker and Excel Sports Management, the marketing agent to the Manning brothers and recently former Oregon QB […]

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Headline Sports Business

NBC Sports Group, NHL Steal The Show At 2014 Sports Business Awards

For the seventh consecutive year, Street & Smith’s SportsBusiness Journal and SportsBusiness Daily presented the annual Sports Business Awards on Wednesday night. The awards recognized achievements in the sports business industry that spanned from March 1, 2013 through February 28, 2014.  Winners were selected by members of the editorial staff at SBJ/SBD along with a […]

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Headline NBA Players Sports Agents

2013-14 NBA Regular Season Awards Recognizes 2 BDA Sports Management Clients

Most analysis surrounding sports agents revolve around an agent’s initial signing of an athlete or an athlete firing an agent or an agent negotiating an athlete’s contract. However, less emphasis is placed on the accolades agents’ clients receive during their playing careers. Below highlights the players and coach that won (or will likely win) 2013-2014 […]

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Headline Sports Business

Huge Loss For IMG As Marketing Agent Alan Zucker Joins Excel Sports

After signing a multi-year extension with IMG in 2011, marketing agent Alan Zucker left the agency for Excel Sports earlier this week. Zucker now joins a few former IMG employees at Excel, including sports agents Jeff Schwartz, Casey Close, and Mark Steinberg.  He currently serves as the marketing agent for a number of athletes including […]

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Headline NBA Players Sports Agents

On To The Next One: Patrick Patterson

Roughly a week ago, I was told by an inside source (and Tweeted) that Sacramento Kings forward Patrick Patterson was leaving his agent to hire Sam Goldfeder of Excel Sports Management.  I contacted Patterson’s agent Odell McCants of Capitol Sports Management LLC to confirm, but received no response.  However, it is now official that Patterson […]

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2013 NBA Draft Agents/Players List

Prior coverage of NBA Draft (agent/player) relationships: 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 Keep up with Sports Agent Blog on Twitter | Facebook | RSS Highlights Excel Sports Management with 7 clients selected  in 1st round. 11 clients selected overall. Wasserman Media Group with 4 clients selected  in 1st round. 9 clients selected overall Octagon Basketball with 3 clients selected  in 1st round. 5 clients selected overall. […]