By Lefteris Moutis/ moutis@eurohoops.net
The lights at Milan will be on the players and the coaches but behind the scenes there is always a successful agent. The person who works for them, negotiates for them, improves their image and he is always next to them in order to help them be effective in and out of the court. Cause as an agent’s’ quote says: “Behind any successful athlete, there is always a successful agent”!
We tried to find out the representatives of every player who will play in the Final Four and created the agents’ list. The “champion” firm is the partnership of ASM-U1st in total and Beobasket of Misko Raznatovic is the most represented among European agents.
NBA agents
4 players: Priority Sports/Brad Ames, Mark Bartelstein
Tyrese Rice (Maccabi Tel Aviv)
Joe Ingles (Maccabi Tel Aviv)
Jeremy Pargo (CSKA Moscow)
Jaycee Carroll (Real Madrid)
3 players: ASM Sports-U1st/Andrew Vye, J.R. Hensley -Andy Miller
Viktor Khryapa (CSKA Moscow)
Sasha Kaun (CSKA Moscow)
Tremmell Darden (Real Madrid)
2 players: Excel Sports Management/Jeff Schwartz-Sam Golfeder
Marcus Slaughter (Real Madrid)
Sylven Landesberg (Maccabi)
2 players: Octagon/Alex Saratsis
Juan Carlos Navarro (Barcelona)
Jacob Pullen (Barcelona)
2 players: Relativity Sports/Happy Walters
Alex Tyus (Maccabi Tel Aviv)
Aaron Jackson (CSKA Moscow)
Duran International/Emilio Duran
Brad Oleson (Barcelona)
Wasserman Media Group/Arn Tellem
Rudy Fernandez (Real Madrid)
BDA Sports/Calvin Andrews
Dontaye Draper (Real Madrid)
Montgomery Sports Group/Roger Montgomery
Sonny Weems (CSKA Moscow)
Summit sport Group/Neil Rosenshein
David Blu (Maccabi Tel Aviv)
CAA/Steven Heumann
Shawn James (Maccabi Tel Aviv)
Exclusive Sports Group/ Buddy Baker
Devin Smith (Maccabi Tel Aviv)
The Neustadt Group/Doug Neustadt
Ricky Hickman (Maccabi Tel Aviv)
EUROPEAN AGENTS
5 players: Beobasket/Misko Raznatovic
Vladimir Micov (CSKA Moscow)
Nenad Krstic (CSKA Moscow)
Kyle Hines (CSKA Moscow)
Andrija Zizic (Maccabi Tel Aviv)
Marcus Slaughter (Real MAdrid -secondary)
3 players: U1st/Juan Aisa-Pere Gallego
Victor Sada (Barcelona)
Marcelinho Huertas (Barcelona)
Tremmell Darden (Real Madrid-secondary)
3 players: Xpheres/Igor Crespo
Alex Abrines (Barcelona)
Marko Todorovic (Barcelona)
Nikola Mirotic (Real Madrid)
3 players: Protalent/Mauricio Balducci-Stefano Lupattelli
Erazem Lorbek (Barcelona)
Maciej Lampe (Barcelona)
Ricky Hickman (Maccabi Tel Aviv – secondary)
3 players: Wasserman Media Group/Arturo Ortega
Sergio Rodriguez (Real Madrid)
Daniel Diez (Real Madrid)
Salah Mejri (Real Madrid)
3 players: FCM
Giorgos Dimitropoulos
Joey Dorsey (Barcelona)
Kostas Papadakis
Ioannis Bourousis (Real Madrid)
2 players: Alti Sport/Obrad Fimic
Alexander Gudumak (CSKA Moscow)
Vitaly Fridzon (CSKA Moscow)
2 players: Revolution Sports/ Burgan Nazirov, Boulat Yusupov
Andrey Vorontsevich (CSKA Moscow)
Aleksey Zozulin (CSKA Moscow)
SferaSports/Giorgos Sfairopoulos
Kostas Papanikolaou (Barcelona)
Prostep/Boris Gorenc
Bostjan Nachbar (Barcelona)
Soresport/Miquel Sola
Juan Carlos Navarro (Barcelona)
Sportspromotion/Nikos Lotsos
Milos Teodosic (CSKA Moscow)
BDA Sports/Rade Filipovich
Dοntaye Draper (Real Madrid-secondary)
XL/Robert Jablan-Danko Drakulic
Ante Tomic (Barcelona)
Hoops Fairplay Agency/David Carro Funes
Rudy Fernandez (Real Madrid)
Sport Gestion/Gorka Arrinda
Felipe Reyes (Real Madrid)
Berenguer & Monico Associates/Ernest Berenguer
Sergio Llull (Real Madrid)
KappaSports/Panagiotis Kapazoglou
Sofoklis Schortsanitis (Maccabi Tel Aviv)
2Talent/Siman-Tov Matan
Yogev Ohayon (Maccabi Tel Aviv)