01-28-2023, 02:23 PM
(01-28-2023, 02:19 PM)DanSchwartzgan Wrote: I think one of the more fascinating things to see is whether Dallas wants any part of a Klutch client. I’ve not seen any real evidence of that historically, but this is a new regime. Same goes regarding CAA following the Brunson situation. We went a decade after Nash before we did anything significant with Duffy. Were bridges burned with CAA, or was Nico successful in helping Mark stay at the grown-up table?
At the same time, I’ve not seen any real evidence that Dallas with Nico is still interested in Schwartz guys. In fact, he’s so new that it is hard to discern any agent pattern. Add to the uncertainty the fact we don’t really know if he was pulling the strings in the summer of 21. We don’t have to have favorite agents or agents we don’t really like. Maybe that is even preferable. But, it isn’t what we’ve done historically. I’ll believe we are going to put ourselves in position to lose a Klutch client for nothing when I see it.
Klutch is representing "half of league", so it would be very bad business to not deal with them. However in this case of Toronto, most scenarios probably doesn't have us getting one. We don't need Trent, so if Toronto would be after Wood, that would likely be a three way deal.