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The Athletic is good shit. Tons of content. Worth the subscription.
 
you get like five free a month if you make an account and I'm trying to support writers getting paid, but here's the long answer re: LeBron and Klutch

I think he’s an all-time phenomenon. An amazing career. I think he’s a notch below Michael Jordan still but I think it’s amazing how he’s evolved. It’s amazing what he’s done and continues to do. The bad thing, the only bad thing, everyone is afraid to say this and I’m not afraid to say it individually, but I’m just saying this because it’s true. And everybody knows this, who is in this business.

“The worst thing that LeBron is doing is forcing this power with Rich Paul and what that is, in terms of, he’s a player, but he has prowess in the media space. His company Spring Hill, that’s awesome. Doing the movies and all of the projects. That’s so commendable. I love that. But now that they’ve jumped into the agent game, which the reality is, it’s illegal for a player, particularly if you’re in the state of California, to be licensed to represent talent.

“Now I know it’s this façade that it’s Rich Paul, but it’s really LeBron who recruits for Rich Paul. So it’s almost like they’re trying to control AAU at the NBA level. This is my AAU team and they’ve carried that to the highest level. And because of his power and his prowess, people, the young players are seduced by LeBron James in the same way people were seduced by Michael Jordan with David Falk. He went from having Michael Jordan and a few other players, to getting the top players in the NBA, because of the Jordan factor. Rob Pelinka had tremendous success as an independent agent because he had Kobe Bryant and the players idolized him. So, the fact that LeBron recruits and has empowered Rich Paul, and I get it, on the top guys, but if someone does their research, a lot of these guys have really gotten screwed, a large number of them, by mismanagement.

“There’s at least five or six massive casualties. Nobody is saying anything and you can even say that the union should take some responsibility because they represent all of the players, not just LeBron James. Because this is anonymous. I hope you have the courage to put this out there, because nobody is talking about this but this is the reality, and if you ask any other agent what I just said, they would all agree.

“They’ve been able to leverage KCP, two or three years in a row because they have the power and they’re forcing it down their throat. Nerlens Noel. There are four or five of them that have suffered millions of dollars from mismanagement but nobody has the courage to support it, because all the media wants access to LeBron. They want access to AD.

“What he’s done is he’s taking AAU basketball to the NBA, because he has the ability to do that because these young players idolize him. I’m starting to hear some rumblings that they might be overloaded. Because you can’t have this level of expectation for a client and service all of these guys. Ben Simmons. Garland. I know this as an agent, you can’t service them all at this level. You can seduce them, but you can’t service them all, at that level with what they say they’re doing. Nerlens Noel. Norris Cole. Shabazz Muhammed. They lost $80 million in Detroit. This is real talk.

“That’s the only disappointment is LeBron has leveraged his popularity with young players for seducing them for Klutch and it’s not serving all the players well. But for the players that are suffering, there’s no repercussions. Nobody is criticizing what they’re doing. And you have to call out the union. They should be meeting with Rich Paul, saying, ‘What happened here? What happened here? They represent all the players. They all pay the same amount for dues. If Rich Paul were a lawyer, he’d be disbarred five times. But because LeBron is so powerful, there is no accountability. And that’s the only bad part with LeBron. Everything else is great. It’s commendable. It’s progressive. I love it. The part that he’s pushed Rich Paul in this position and these naïve basketball players, that’s pretty egregiously irresponsible.”
 
I’ve got to go back and look at it but there was clearly one agent who is a disgruntled OWG and you could track his responses. Not sure if that response was from him. I thought it was telling that other agents didn’t have the same beef.

NBA looking at a Dec 22 start with 72 games to be done by the Olympics.
 
I didn't realize Rich Paul was up to 28 clients. Dude is pulling in $32 mil a year in commissions.
 
The Athletic is good shit. Tons of content. Worth the subscription.

I had it before, but cancelled it once I had like signed up for eighty billion subscriptions. Got it again, $1/mo for 6 months.
 
Sixers sign Morey to a 5 year deal to run basketball operations.
 
Sixers sign Morey to a 5 year deal to run basketball operations. He'll apparently be working with Elton Brand.
 
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
per ESPN article, Paul Silas' kid hired by Rockets as head coach makes them the fifth father-son head coach duo in NBA history

how many can you name without looking it up?

(I couldn't come up with any)
 
Sixers sign Morey to a 5 year deal to run basketball operations. He'll apparently be working with Elton Brand.

It will be interesting to see how this works out
The 76ers roster does not look like the Rockets roster. Does the roster change or does Morey change his philosophy of how to build a team?
 
Brand is still the GM.

But yeah. He’s going from a small ball team with a bunch of shooters to a team led by an elite big man and whatever Simmons is right now.
 
The Rockets weren't always a small ball, no centers all shooters team. Morey tried to put the strongest team around Harden he could, used the G League to test out avant garde strategies and build up his coaching ranks, and created an organization that was professional at every level. I'd like to think he could do something similar with the Sixers. It'd be nice to have front office and back office operations both on par with the league's best to go with a team that regularly has multiple all stars. The roster as currently constructed is a mess; the decisions post-Hinkie have almost to a decision been bad. What we gave up to get Harris is just crazy. I'd like to think he doesn't have to split up Embiid and Simmons. But I also know Horford and Harris and Richardson aren't the best three players to support those two since none of them can really dribble or shoot at an elite level. Doc certainly wasn't my first choice for coach, but Morey is 100% my first choice to lead the organization. I wouldn't have ever thought this ownership group would go after Morey, but I'm really happy they did.
 
wouldn't be shocked if the sixers went for harden

too bad simmons and embiid are both sooooooooooooooooft

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