I have to say that this article , published on HoopsWorld.com , and written by Steve Kyler, really hit home with me.
When the article discusses “runners”, these are guys I’ve dealt with and interacted with many times when scouting a player or teams:
A “runner”—an employee of the agent gets close to the player and his family—makes the initial relationship. When it’s time for the athlete and the family to make the decision, a lot of times the runner acts as an intermediary feeding informed information to the family about what teams are scouting the player and what teams may have the player in their rankings.
Yes, and those guys are the ones completely unregulated by the NCAA, and they try to get close to kids and eventually get a payoff. When you are a lifelong fan of basketball, you tend to see athletes from their televised games, and that’s usually when their presence has reached a much higher maturity.
NBA players have to be really polished, comfortable in interviews, articulate. That’s something that a lot of us learn as w ...
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