Markieff Morris of the Wizards and Marcus Morris of the Celtics are preparing for free agency next summer by changing their representatives, tweets Shams Charania of Yahoo Sports.
Both players signed with Rich Paul of Klutch Sports Group, who is best known as the agent for LeBron James. Paul has a number of other high-profile clients, such as John Wall, Ben Simmons and Eric Bledsoe.
Markieff Morris has spent the past two-and-a-half seasons in Washington after being acquired in a trade at the 2016 deadline. A seven-year veteran, he will make $8.6MM in the final season of a four-year, $32MM contract.
Marcus Morris has also been in the league seven years and is coming off his first season in Boston after being traded there by the Pistons last summer. He has a $5.375MM salary for 2018/19 in the final season of a four-year, $20MM deal.
Why do so many players change agents when approaching FA? I thought the idea is to have an agent that knows you deal with it, stick with the same agent… you know the typical, really cannot understand the benefit of changing, are they just saying you are good when I have a contract but not good to negotiate a contract for me. Really confusing.
When you sign a deal with a team generally that agent is going to make his money off your entire deal. You can’t have an agent sign a deal then a week later fire him. So most players wait until the end of the deal to find a new agent, to avoid paying double.
An agent is simply your representation. You don’t need a lawyer who knows you when you get arrested..
Perhaps they were waiting for Rich Paul to have spaxe to take them on.
Man… We really need the season to start – there’s discussion on a Morris twins’ administrative adjustment…
Shouldn’t Minnesota be trying to get these TWINS?
The Dad Joke of the day award goes to…nentwigs