https://bleacherreport.com/articles...paul-lawsuit-could-change-nba-agent-landscape Sources told Bleacher Report that Victor Oladipo was influenced to leave longtime representative Aaron Turner of Versus Management for Excel Sports just before free agency this summer. Excel gave Oladipo the same sales pitch: a new agent can deliver more money than the previous one. In this case, like Noel's, they didn't deliver. […] Noel goes on to allege that the Clippers and Rockets also attempted to contact Paul that same offseason, also to no avail. League sources confirmed this detail to Bleacher Report as well. "Nerlens was always somebody we really liked in Houston and definitely tried to get in touch with," one former Rockets official said. "But my understanding is it never got very far."
Yeah we could have been stuck with a brown down vet min Oladipo for 50 million over the next 2 seasons, thanks for turning down the extension homie
I agree with all of this, but my point is even without a legal/finance background, he could have still avoided the strongest aspect of the lawsuit if he simply cared enough to get back to people regarding his clients. And while somebody with a legal/finance background would be less likely to drop the ball as a generalization, as I'm sure you know, lawyers are regularly disciplined for dropping the ball in somewhat similar ways, with failure to communicate with clients being the number one source of grievances against lawyers. But I've also seen a wide range of other similar malpractice such as simply botching jurisdictional deadlines for no reason, etc.
I forget who it was - maybe Codman or some other insider back in the day mentioned Noel was a target to replace Capella. Obviously it never happened but it made perfect sense to me and this story shines a light on why it did't while the very vocal 1% of clutchfans complained relentlessly at the time that said insiders were frauds....
