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Were you able to digest our breakdown of the first round?  Agencies like ASM Sports and Priority Sports came on strong at the end of the first round.  Which agencies found their home in the second round?

Second Round

After 60 picks and 100,000 trades, we now know who was selected in the 2009 NBA Draft and what teams they may be playing for in 2009.  I will let the other web sites debate over what teams were the winners and losers.  Here, our main concern is sorting out the agencies that were popping champagne vs. those leaving Madison Square Garden with their heads down.  This post will cover the first round.  A second round post will follow.

First Round

If you didn’t check out Part 1 of an interview I recently was involved in with Jon Scott, writer for PatriotsInsider.com and Scout.com, go ahead and do so now.  Part 2 is now up.  In Part 2, we talk about topics like: Contract length, bonus money and gag orders on players.

Check out Part 1 of an interview I recently was involved in with Jon Scott, writer for PatriotsInsider.com and Scout.com.  Part 1 has been posted on both sites, and Part 2 should be following soon.  I had so much fun with it, that Scott may ask me to make this a regular column on the sites.

Topics discussed in Part 1 include: Super agents, how agents get started in the business, contract terms and more.

Mark Riddell and David Spriggs may just be the two most popular athletes amongst their peers at the moment. Due to their persistence, they have set a precedent that will help athletes residing in Australia keep a bit more of their income. [Sports stars have win in High Court against the Australian Tax Office]

Riddell, a current Rugby League player and Spriggs, a former AFL footballer took on the Australian Tax Office (ATO) arguing that the money that athletes pay to agents for their services should be tax deductible.

Myopic – [mahy-op-ik, -oh-pik] –adjective

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 better about what it takes to have them sign their name on a Uniform Player Contract with yours attached as the certified representative.

The deadline for underclassmen to pull their names out of the NBA Draft is one week from yesterday (June 15).  Those that have committed to an agent no longer have an option of returning to school if they decide that they do not want to enter the draft pool.

This year’s draft class has seen many non-senior talents withdraw themselves from the draft, which has led many analysts to claim that this year’s pool is mediocre at best.  Writers are already frothing at the mouth in anticipation of next year’s class, which is supposed to be extremely deep.  Don’t forget your life preservers!

The most recent players to bow out of this year’s draft are: Tasmin Mitchell (LSU), Nic Wise (Arizona), and Dwayne Collins (Miami).

Jack Bechta is the head honcho at JB Sports (Jack Bechta and Associates).  Jack has been negotiating deals for professional football players since the early 1990s, and still boasts a respectable client roster to this day.  In his time as an NFLPA Certified Advisor, Jack has negotiated over 200 contracts for his players.  The man has seen a lot in his time, and has decided to give some of his knowledge away with his column at The National Football Post.  His most recent article will make many peoples’ jaws drop, but it is an excellent foray into the world of sports agency, directl

If you are one of the lucky people to have applied this past January for NFLPA Contract Advisor certification, you most probably received an email recently that states whether your application has been approved or denied.  If approved, step one (the easy step) is out of the way.  Now you will have to attend the NFLPA Contract Advisor Seminar for New Applicants and start studying for the exam that will be given at the seminar.  A passing grade on the exam is required in order to be granted certification.

We all know that keeping in touch with our clients is vastly important for many different reasons.  But we can add another reason to that list: uncovering unexpected/unknown injuries.  In April, TSN reported that Ron Salcer accused the Minnesota Wild medical staff of negligence for failing to diagnose that his client, Bret Burns, had a concussion (concy, in hockey talk).  The TSN report documents how Salcer found out about Burns’s concy:

Recently, I discussed the three main workouts that NBA teams are putting on for the top prospects in this year’s draft class.  Teams are joining up on these workouts to cut the cost of doing them individually, which include the fixed costs of hosting the event itself, flying the players out to the workout, putting the players up in a hotel, giving the players a per diem, etc.

Yesterday was an eventful day for one Drew Rosenhaus.  He was fired by a client, re-signed a client who had fired him in the past, and negotiated a contract extension for one of his current clients…all in one day.  But such is a normal day for Rosenhaus (minus the firing).

The Arena Football League canceled its 2009 season.  NFL Europe was scrapped a few years ago.  The Continental Basketball Association wrapped up its season well before it was supposed to.  The UNGL never got off the ground.  The AAFL did not have enough funding to have its inaugural season.  There are many other examples of leagues folding before our eyes.  One that has managed to survive, though, is the American Basketball Association (ABA).  In fact, the ABA is constantly growing, with expansion teams lined up for 2009 and 2010.