Follow Up To Interview With David Falk

A week ago, Darren Rovell interviewed sports agent David Falk.  He discussed the constant corruption surrounding the sports agent profession and the overall devolving of the practice of representing athletes.  A lot of media entities picked up on a particular part of Darren’s interview with Falk:

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Falk: …I wanted to meet a college player who I really enjoyed watching this year. So I asked a friend of mine, who is a very powerful man in the game, to introduce me to him. And he said, “I’d like to help but I can’t.” And when I asked why. He said, “You are three years and $500,000 short.”

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For the past week, everyone has wanted to know who that very powerful man is.  Falk talked to Henry Abbott of ESPN about his statement, but did not reveal any real useful information…other than the fact that he has a fascination with Crocodile Dundee.  One thing we know is that the very powerful man is not William Wesley, although he is definitely a very powerful man in the world of basketball.  But back to Crocodile Dundee.  Abbott’s gets five stars on his reporting for getting this quote out of Falk:

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Have you seen Crocodile Dundee 2? There’s a part where an African-American guy comes up to Paul Hogan and pulls a switchblade on him. Hogan is from the outback, and asks, what’s that? And the guy says that’s a knife. Hogan says that’s not a knife. THIS is a knife, and then he pulls out this huge machete.

Sometimes I think that I’d like to be like Crocodile Dundee. You want to cheat? Let’s really cheat. You want to pay someone $500,000? Let’s pay them $5 million and see what happens. You want to do that?

But … can you get that money back? Of course not. You lose before you even start. If you pay people $500,000 to get to represent them at the draft — the minute you have to pay them is the minute you can no longer advise them as an impartial agent.

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Honestly, I see Falk’s point.  Using a Crocodile Dundee reference to make it is an interesting tactic.  Somewhere Michael Jordan is really confused.