Post by pcdad on Aug 27, 2013 9:17:18 GMT -5
So some of us dismiss Seth Cohen as a clown (guilty as charged!) But he is shrewder than we thought...
www.grantland.com/blog/the-triangle/post/_/id/71049/second-round-first-priority-ricky-ledo-and-exploiting-the-cbas-inefficiencies
...and then there is "Slick Seth"...negotiating with Mark Cuban... Guess who wins?...
..and then there is this choice nugget...
Again, the league and union punted on this stuff as they rushed to end the lockout. That procrastination will end soon. Adam Silver will succeed David Stern as the league’s commissioner, and the players' union will pick a new executive director to move on from the Billy Hunter gift-giving festival of the last decade. John Calipari, the most powerful coach in college (some NBA executives jokingly call Kentucky “the NBA’s 31st franchise”), recently joined the board of the National Association of Basketball Coaches, signaling his intention to take a large role in the discussion of all these issues.
www.grantland.com/blog/the-triangle/post/_/id/71049/second-round-first-priority-ricky-ledo-and-exploiting-the-cbas-inefficiencies
Ricky Ledo’s contract negotiations were going badly. Which sounds a little ridiculous. The Mavs selected Ledo with the 43rd pick in the draft, meaning he was a second-rounder with very little leverage and almost certainly no place else to go if he wished to play in the NBA anytime soon. His track record to that point was spotty. He played for several high schools and logged zero minutes in college after being ruled academically ineligible. He looked so disinterested in some pre-draft workouts that officials from two teams told me they'd concluded that Ledo was “undraftable.”
And yet Ledo and his agent, Seth Cohen, were locked in fairly contentious negotiations with Dallas officials during much of the NBA’s Summer League in Las Vegas.
Ledo, for instance, will earn $60,000 more than the minimum in his rookie season, and the Mavericks agreed to guarantee his full $816,000 second-year salary, per both Cuban and Cohen. That amounts to nearly $1.4 million in guaranteed cashola for a guy who played zero minutes of organized basketball last year
...and then there is "Slick Seth"...negotiating with Mark Cuban... Guess who wins?...
“Mark Cuban was not going to back down on that fourth year,” says Cohen, Ledo’s agent. “It wasn’t up for discussion. And if I gave up on anything, I gave up on that. But what I got in exchange was that $60,000 bump and security. And that’s important for Ricky, someone who didn’t play any college basketball.”
..and then there is this choice nugget...
Again, the league and union punted on this stuff as they rushed to end the lockout. That procrastination will end soon. Adam Silver will succeed David Stern as the league’s commissioner, and the players' union will pick a new executive director to move on from the Billy Hunter gift-giving festival of the last decade. John Calipari, the most powerful coach in college (some NBA executives jokingly call Kentucky “the NBA’s 31st franchise”), recently joined the board of the National Association of Basketball Coaches, signaling his intention to take a large role in the discussion of all these issues.