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On To The Next One: Ramon Sessions & Garrett Temple

Washington Wizards guards Ramon Sessions and Garrett Temple are not only teammates on the floor, but have decided to become teammates in the representation game. Both Sessions and Temple have decided to leave their current agents and join Priority Sports & Entertainment, where they will be represented by founder and CEO Mark Bartelstein. Sessions is […]

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Allegiant Athletic Agency Scores An NBA Draft Prospect In Nate Wolters

Basketball players who have declared for the 2013 NBA Draft have until tomorrow to withdraw their names and return to their respective schools should they determine that it is not yet the right time for them to join the professional ranks.  Complying with the NCAA Early Entry Withdrawal Deadline will be enough for those aforementioned […]

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On To The Next One: Ramon Sessions

Congratulations to Jared Karnes and the rest of the team at Allegiant Athletic Agency (a3) on the signing of Ramon Sessions as a client with regards to the negotiation of team contracts and marketing opportunities.  Sessions was previously represented by Atlanta-based agent James Wells. Under Sessions’ current contract, he is scheduled to make $4.26 million in 2011/12 and […]

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Wayne Chism And His Agent Awarded Money By Basketball Arbitral Tribunal

In my Shabbat Shalom: Friday Wrap-Up from February 11, 2011, I wrote that agents should make sure to get Basketball Arbitral Tribunal (BAT) clauses it in their international players’ contracts.  If inserted in a player’s contract, the clause allows either the team or player to have the Basketball Arbitral Tribunal oversee a legal proceeding and resolve a […]

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Shabbat Shalom: Friday Wrap-Up (5/6/2011)

Dynasty football had its first client taken in the NFL Draft last week.  Michael Jasper was the heaviest player taken in the Draft and the only player to be selected from an NAIA school.  The Buffalo Bills have a hard working nose tackle who is ready to tear up offensive lines…as soon as the NFL […]

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On To The Next One: C.J. Watson

C.J. Watson was undrafted coming out of the University of Tennessee and played overseas for Bipop Carire Reggio Emilia in Italy and PAOK B.C. in Greece before coming back to the United States to play in the NBA Development League.  Watson was the 5th overall pick in the 2007 D-League draft, taken by the Rio Grande Valley Vipers.  In […]

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On To The Next One: Chris Lofton

Sometimes it just feels more comfortable to sign with an agent who your friends are with, especially if your friends are happy with his services.  It also never hurts when the agent is not far away.  This way you can bug him in person instead of solely over the phone.  Chris Lofton probably had both […]