NBA agents are mostly unknown and rarely speak publicly. They are the support system of the league.
They also have a pulse on where the league is and where it’s going.
Over the last few weeks, The Athletic talked to 20 of them for our first NBA agents survey to get an idea of where things stand in the NBA now and where they believe it will be going. The next few months promise to be murky and uncertain, so we asked these agents to give us their best ideas about what they think will happen.
They talked about Giannis Antetokounmpo and Chris Paul, the Warriors and the 76ers, the NBA draft, free agency and all things LeBron James. The league’s future will revolve around them.
From July to mid-October the NBA was bedrocked in Orlando, mostly sequestered on the Disney campus, and put together a spectacle that seemed unfathomable just a year, if not a few months, ago. The league’s handling of the bubble and of COVID-19 has earned it…
