Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, who is spearheading the NBA Players Association’s search for a new executive director, held a brief meeting in Chicago to update player agents on the current state of the search and the plan moving forward.
That doesn’t sound earth-shattering unless compared to how former executive director Billy Hunter operated before being unanimously voted out of office 15 months ago following an audit that revealed a host of questionable financial and hiring decisions during Hunter’s reign.
Hunter made a point of vilifying player agents and keeping the process of any and all decisions as clandestine as possible.
The players, aided by the Chicago-based search firm Reilly Partners, were operating on a similar basis, searching for Hunter’s replacement, prompting one notable player agent, Jeff Schwartz, to write a guest column at ESPN TrueHoop complaining that nothing had changed.
It has now.
Johnson, enlisted a month ago to help the players union’s search, has formed a committee of outside advisers and has aggressively presented his plan and ...
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Kevin Johnson Meets with NBA Agents, Signaling New Approach from Players Union
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