{"id":1576878,"date":"2023-09-12T05:55:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T09:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1576878"},"modified":"2023-09-12T05:55:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T09:55:02","slug":"david-falk-michael-jordan-agent-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/david-falk-michael-jordan-agent-now\/","title":{"rendered":"David Falk: Where Is Michael Jordan's Agent Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Michael Jordan<\/a> is the best basketball player of his generation, if not ever. It's only fitting that his agent held a similar status in his profession. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Falk<\/a> helped several '90s stars make a then-unseen amount of money from their contracts and as brand spokespeople. Falk's time as the NBA's preeminent super-agent is long over. But he is still involved in the game as the founder of a new agency.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Falk's biggest clients<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Growing up in a middle-class suburb in Long Island, New York, Falk was always obsessed with sports. Unlike most kids, however, his career fantasies did not involve playing for<\/em> the Knicks.\u00a0“We were in fourth grade when he announced to me that he was going to represent professional athletes,” childhood friend and attorney Reid Kahn told The Washington Post<\/a> in 1996. “This was all the more amazing because back then, professional athletes really didn't need lawyers.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Falk earned an economics degree from Syracuse University before attending law school at George Washington University. During his final year there, he was hired as an unpaid intern for sports agent Donald Dell at ProServ. The firm mostly focused on tennis players (Dell was a former pro himself), leaving Falk to find NBA players to represent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He proved to be capable at the job, signing two No. 1 draft picks in John Lucas and Mark Aguirre, in addition to negotiating the first million-dollar shoe deal for James Worthy in 1982. Soon, Falk's relationship with North Carolina would land him the biggest fish in basketball history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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