Andy Miller has been busy lately, starting in March, the nation will have an NCAA March madness, the regional league of the national universities will end, and the brutal single-round elimination rounds will be played out across the country. This will be a stage for geniuses to show themselves, and it is also a busy hunting ground for agents and scouts, for those seasoned agents, if they want to get superstars to join, they must start to act when the big tree is just starting to sprout, and when the big tree wants to dig again, the price paid is much greater.

For Miller, who wants to start his own agency, he has given a lot of scouting work to professional scouts, and he can sit in his office and wait for faxes and emails to pick and choose from those scouting reports.

But not in March, he had to go out in person, go to various venues to watch those young people play, some of whom he had already taken a fancy to a year or two ago, and began to sneak in and contact secretly and privately, and some of the real talents, players who can realize their worth and are strictly disciplined, will not have anything to do with their agents before they officially leave college to devote themselves to professional sports.

In this case, agents need to do the perimeter work in person, so that when they announce their participation in the NBA draft, they can think of themselves and choose themselves first, so as to obtain a high-quality star who can bring rolling benefits to themselves.

Recently, Miller has started traveling back and forth to the NCAA tournaments and started to scout the rookies, and this year is considered a big year for the draft, another year of talent blowout since 1996, and since acquiring Kevin Garnett in 1995, Miller has not signed a superstar with enough weight to satisfy his ambition to become the best agent in the league.

He missed out on almost every quality rookie in '96, he was exhausted by Kevin Garnett's sneaker contract, he didn't have time to pay attention to those rookies, and he wasn't working for himself that year.

Now it's different, he has his own work team. With his own office building and his agency in the works, he's set to make a big splash at this year's draft. Of course, he still knows how many pounds and taels he has, and geniuses like LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony have long been targeted by those big-name agents, and Miller knows that he will not have a chance.

He's looking at potential stocks that have the potential to become All-Stars, but aren't very popular, and who may not bring in as much commercial income as those superstars, but who will get stable, long-term contracts in the NBA. Having multiple players of this kind will be an important guarantee for an agent company to operate and move forward.

Miller first set his sights on point guard Kirk Hinrich from the University of Kansas, a sedate white guard who is billed as John Stockton's successor. The forward group cut tactics used by Jay, his University of Kansas team, is the No. 1 with his excellent passing ability. Of course, he also has a lot of flaws, the most notable of which is his age, he is already a senior, and no superstar since Tim Duncan wants to spend four years in college.

The second is that he played the point guard position from his freshman year to his junior year, and he didn't switch to point guard until his senior year, and then he achieved very good results. The University of Kansas are also the favourites to win this year's NCAA, seeding the tournament after losing just four games in the Big 12 before the national tournament begins.

Of course, these are the contents of the scouting report, and Miller doesn't care about his weaknesses or skills. He just knew that, first of all, the player would definitely be in the NBA draft this summer, because he was already a senior, and there was no way he would go to graduate school without going to the NBA. So Miller doesn't have to worry that he'll not be drafted.

Secondly, judging from various scouting reports, his pick will definitely not be in the top five, but he should be able to stabilize around 10. It's not impossible to get into the top ten, basically this player will become the backbone of the team, and it is not a problem to get a contract with an annual salary of more than 5 million. If he can get under his staff, Miller is confident that he will be able to secure a contract with an annual salary of more than 10 million yuan, which is also his signature to promote himself to the players.

So Miller booked his flight to California early on March 19, when the University of Kansas vs. Salt Lake City State will play in Anaheim, California, in the first round of the NCAA tournament, which will also host all Western Conference games.

But just as he was getting everything ready and handing over all the work here in New York, he received a call from a man named Rob Eze, who asked him to have a drink at the Crescent Cafe on Fifth Avenue, saying that he had something important to talk to him about. Miller wasn't going to make the appointment, but when Eze mentioned it had something to do with the agent company he was going to set up, Miller decided to make a trip. He knew he was probably in trouble, because in the United States, when a lawyer comes to the door, either you're in trouble or you're going to be in trouble.

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In a small private room on the second floor of the Crescent Moon Cafe, Miller met the lawyer Eze who had asked him over, a middle-aged white white man with short gray curly hair, looking very peaceful and friendly, sitting on a chair drinking coffee, with a white document in front of him, and a black file bag beside him, typical lawyer standard.

After seeing Miller coming, Eze got up from his seat and stretched out his hand to Miller, but Miller didn't stretch out his hand, and Miller didn't want to shake hands casually before knowing what the other party meant.

Seeing that Miller didn't mean to shake hands, Eze didn't mind, but motioned for Miller to sit down, and then said, "Hello, Mr. Andy Miller, introduce yourself, I'm Rob Eze, a lawyer from Washington...... Here's my business card...... I mainly work for the trade union and am responsible for defending the rights and interests of workers. There is a recent case of infringement that should be related to you, and the victim has approached me and would like me to contact you to explain the situation. ”

After listening to Ez's words, Miller frowned, thinking in his heart about what kind of recent signing may lead to infringement, logically speaking, although the management side has the advantage in the NBA, but the labor side is not vegetarian, they are agents on both sides of the begging for food, the most important thing is not to infringe on rights and interests, like this time and the former company defaulted in advance, it is already Miller has made a lot of determination. After deciding to set up his own brokerage company, Miller was careful at every turn, for fear of violating some minefield and causing his plan to fail.

"Can you tell us more about that? Why didn't I receive a lawyer's letter? Miller put his hand in his pocket and looked at Eze as he said. At the same time, the hand in his pocket pressed the switch of the recorder, he now suspected that it was most likely a legal blackmail, and in order to protect himself, he had brought a recorder with him before he came, and now it seemed that it could come in handy.

"The lawyer's letter is already on the way to the mail, and I just stopped by on a business trip to New York, just to meet with you to find out the situation. My client's name is Aaron Mintz, and he's a sports agent like you, but he's not as successful as you are, and he doesn't have any great big stars under him, just small characters who are hovering on the fringes of professional basketball. In January you signed a player named Tripnier, who now plays for the Denver Nuggets and has a non-guaranteed contract. And until he signed with you, he was Mr. Aaron Minz's employer, and he also had a contract with him......"

"Wait, wait, I know who you're talking about, that shooting guard named Tripnier, his contract gives me less than $20,000 in commissions!" Miller interrupted Ez, and he remembered who Ezz was talking about, the unruly shooting guard who had come to New York to find him in person.

"It's not about the money...... I'm not here to make money ......," Eze added.

"What's the problem with that? Is it a contract problem? Before signing the contract with Tripnier, he had already terminated his contract with his agent! Miller said with great certainty that he remembers very well that he only re-signed Tripnir after the contract with his former agent had been terminated for more than a certain number of days. That's right, Tripnir did terminate Minzi's contract before signing with you, and the timing was fine. But the question is, why did Tripnir terminate Minz's contract, was it his own free will, or was it at your instigation? Sorry I might not have used the right words......"

Ez's questioning silenced Miller, he knew that it was possible to poach each other's agents in the league, but it was all secret, and it was against the agent regulations to openly instigate the player to terminate the contract with the former agent and sign with him. "He came to me on his own, do you think I could poach such a player?" Miller wanted to say this, but he didn't, he knew that such a thing could not be said, and he would not say that he had signed Tripnir to get Bynum, so he asked, "Please give proof, or I will sue you for blackmail." “

Eze smiled, pushed the file on the table in front of Miller, and said, "This is the termination fax that Trippnir sent to Mintz, on the last page of the fax, please see, there is an address to send the fax." “

Miller flipped the fax to the last page, and saw an address bar in the bottom row of the page, printed at 223 South Dean Avenue in New York, the building where his office was located. (To be continued.) )