They don’t make NBA free agency like they used to — or at least that is how one of the greatest agents in the history of the sport believes. Legendary agent David Falk — who used to represent Michael Jordan and Patrick Ewing, to name a few — shared how he believes being an agent has become less relevant due to the restrictive nature of the system and the lack of negotiation opportunities within it today in a recent interview with GQ’s Howard Beck.
“I find it sort of a little bit boring,” said Falk of today’s free agency. “I don’t think free agency is dying,” he explained. “I think that as the rules become more and more restrictive, it’s more and more difficult to be creative.”
Falk took pride in bending the system to benefit his clients — a practice that is no longer really an option. “It’s one of the reasons why I stopped enjoying being an agent,” he said. “Because the knowledge you have, and the creativity you have, is severely limited by the rules.”
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The so-called player empowerment era is not all that great to Falk, either. “You don’t need free agency … because these teams, the minute the guy says `I don’t want to be on the team,’ they accommodate him. I think it’s terrible.”
“It makes it look less professional … In order to make more money as a 50-50 partner, they have to not attack the business, they have to grow the business.”
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