Vanguard Sports Group Adds Veteran Agents. Las Vegas, Atlanta, and Raleigh-based Vanguard Sports Group has added to its football division by bringing in veteran NFLPA Contract Advisors Tony Paige and Chitta Malik, who had co-founded agency Dream Point Sports. Those two agents will assist with the football operations at Vanguard and add many NFL clients […]
By: Jacoby Vault and Samantha Greenberg The NBA welcomed its newest rookies last night as 60 players were drafted in the two rounds of the NBA Draft. The NBA Draft took place at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. Excel Sports Management represented the first pick of the NBA Draft with Cade Cunningham from […]
As reported by Liz Mullen of Sports Business Journal the Los Angeles Lakers Guard Quinn Cook has switched representation. NBA Agent Mark Bartelstein of Priority Sports & Entertainment will now take over representation responsibilities. Quinn Cook averaged just under five points per game with limited action with the Lakers, but Cook has proven that with […]
Louisville forward Jordan Nwora has declared for the NBA draft. The 6-foot-7 junior is coming off a shortened season in which he led the Cardinals in both points and minutes while acting as the unquestioned leader of the team. Over his last two seasons, he averaged 17.5 points per game. Nwora tested the draft waters […]
Here are the final notes on the top agencies by number of clients drafted in the 2019 NFL Draft: Creative Artists Agency- 22 clients drafted this year compared to 25 in 2018. Six clients in the first round and 8 in the second round. Agent Tory Dandy had 7 clients taken in the first 3 […]
Mike McCartney, director of football at priority Sports & Entertainment, has been involved in football for more than 25 years as a coach, scout, front office executive and NFLPA certified agent. His clientele over the years includes Haloti Ngata, Kurt Warner, Arian Foster, Sean Lee, Mohammad Sanu and Kirk Cousins. In March, McCartney negotiated a […]
Richard Gray is the founder and agent for Gray Area Sports Group. Although only licensed for a year, he has worked in basketball since 2010. He spent two separate stints with Priority Sports & Entertainment as an intern: the first in 2010 before attending law school at Washburn University at Priority’s Chicago office, and the […]
Sure, everyone knows how much money in contracts agents have negotiated, but they don’t know how adept agents are at finding talent. Sports Agent Blog ranks the top eight agents based not on lump contracts sums negotiated, but on the pure talent they represent. After parsing through all the players represented by each agent, we […]
Back home in Fort Lauderdale this week and it was hard to keep up with what was happening in the sports world with all the catching up and new business at Heitner Legal. I suppose that’s a good thing. I had been away for roughly 10 days, first in Seattle and then on a 7 […]
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 […]