NBA Rookies Sized Up for Shoe Contracts - Sports Biz with Darren Rovell - MSNBC.com

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Published 7/19/2008 by Bethlehem Shoals (noreply@blogger.com) at freedarko.com
... guy three years removed from Skyline—this nowhere is certainly preferable to the nowhere of Utah. Especially if he'll get more minutes in the Dust Bowl. The big irony here: My "joke" was that Miles sounded a lot more exotic and regional on the track than Dee Brown, who if memory serves was awfully peppy and accessible. So if the location of the [OKC team] makes it attractive to Miles, then, wow, my silliness inadvertantly might have made a point. -Sneaker wars, stuff I barely follow: Darren Rovell says that Jennings is a hotter property than Rose or Beasley. Rose is the kind ...

Can I Still Invest In Brandon Jennings?
Published 7/19/2008 by DanShanoff.com (noreply@blogger.com) at Dan Shanoff
... Here's another option: I would have offered him $250,000 for a 10 percent stake of all future earnings in his first 4 years of the NBA, not including shoe deals or other endorsements (which could be big, per Rovell). That gives Jennings a sort of "post-money valuation" of $2.5 million. Not bad for a player who has yet to play a single minute of college or pro basketball. ...