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Originally Posted by Mecca
I doubt you'd have an agent, or you wouldn't get the best deal possible.
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The odds of me not getting an agent would be zero. They would be less than zero if that was possible. There isn't an agent in the world who wouldn't take that deal, because there are 32 first-round picks and 8 gazillion "sports agents".
And in terms of getting the best deal, what's your definition of that? If you mean the maximum money in the short-term, possibly not. But if you mean the best deal for my career, it would help my odds. Right now, you've got agents who will advise a ROOKIE player to HOLD OUT in his all-important first training camp so they can get an extra $100,000, or get some escalator clause that has a 5 percent chance of kicking in. Are they doing that for the player? No. They're doing it so they can get their ten percent and then tell the next prospect that they got a great deal. They don't care about the players' careers.