Report: Clippers C DeAndre Jordan drops agents after tumultuous summer 15h - NBA DEANDRE JORDAN +3 more ESPN.com news services 590Shares Email Print Comment Los Angeles Clippers center DeAndre Jordan has split with his representatives at Relativity Media, Dan Fegan and Jarinn Akana, according to a report by the Los Angeles Times. Jordan told the agents of his decision a few days after the NBA fined the Clippers $250,000 for violating league rules while trying to re-sign him last month, the L.A. Times reports. A league investigation found that the Clippers had made a presentation to Jordan, who was then a free agent, on July 2 that improperly included a potential third-party endorsement opportunity. League rules prohibit teams from arranging for others to provide compensation for a player unless it is included in a contract or is otherwise permitted by the collective bargaining agreement. Jordan, after verbally agreeing to a four-year max deal with the Dallas Mavericks during the free-agency moratorium period, made an about-face when he re-signed with Los Angeles. Chris Paul and Blake Griffin had descended en masse on Houston to get Jordan back, meeting him at his house. Several of the Clippers contingent remained after the end of the meeting, staying until he was to sign the deal, which Jordan was first able to do at 12:01 a.m. ET when a leaguewide moratorium was lifted. Fegan and Akana had arrived in Houston the same day as the L.A. contingent -- along with Mavs owner Mark Cuban and lead Dallas recruiter Chandler Parsons -- but were excluded from the Clippers' early-evening meeting with their client, according to ESPN sources. Akana was, however, present during the signing. Relativity Sports marks the third agency Jordan has left in seven seasons; Joel Bell and Wasserman Media Group were the others. http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/...gents-dan-fegan-jarinn-akana-relativity-media
Well he is trying to act like it was his agent who screwed up and not him to save his image... I'd say too late. He just doesn't have the required brain cells for the business world.
espn will try to push the angle that fegan forced him to commit to dallas, which is bs, imo. I think he felt disrespected in la and felt loved in dallas. then lac put on the full court press when they realized they were a fringe playoff team without him, and his weak a** caved. I think he'll regret it. everyone focuses on dallas not being a contender with him, but forget what happened to the clips in the playoffs last year. you don't recover from that. he should have walked.
