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What is Entersport ?
Entersport
Management, Inc. is a management company that specializes in
representing professional basketball players throughout the
world. Under the direction of the Company's President, Marc. S.
Fleisher, the services provided by Entersport range from the
day-to-day logistics of career management to contract
negotiation and long-term career counseling. Finding the best
place for a client to play and getting him or her the best
possible contract is both the Company's specialty and its
priority. Entersport values personal attention and places
special emphasis on the full development of a client's
professional and commercial opportunities. The Company executes
this philosophy by seeking out opportunities for clients in
activities such as endorsements, corporate affiliations,
personal appearances, licensing, merchandising, exhibitions,
tours, camps and clinics. Entersport is a truly "global" company
with offices and representatives throughout the world.
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History
Entersport was
founded in 1983 by the late Larry Fleisher. Larry began
representing basketball players in 1964 when he represented
former U.S. Senator Bill Bradley, with his groundbreaking
contract with the New York Knicks. He went on to represent many
of the games greatest players such as Willis Reed, John Havlicek,
Earl Monroe, Jerry West, Bob Lanier and Dave Debusschere.
Several of Larry's clients are still in the NBA either as
coaches (Mike Dunleavy, Pat Riley and Phil Jackson, to name but
a few) or as front office personnel (e.g. Geoff Petrie, Jerry West, Ernie Grunfeld and Mitch Kupchak). Aside from his
pioneering work as an agent, Larry started the NBA Players
Association in 1961 and ran it for 27 years until he retired in
1988. Under his leadership the average salary increased from
only $10,000 a year in 1961 to more than $600,000 a year in
1988. Larry's tremendous accomplishments on behalf of NBA
players were recognized and rewarded when he was elected
posthumously to the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1991.
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Why
Entersport ?
Unlike other
leading management companies, Entersport specializes in
basketball. Today the company works with a select group of
players in the NBA as well as in Europe. In this way Entersport
and its experienced representatives are able to personally
address their client's needs immediately and professionally.
Professional basketball is truly an international business. In
order for a player to maximize all of his or her opportunities
it is absolutely essential for a player to have the right
representation. Due to the tremendous global reach of the
Company it is more than capable of finding "the perfect place"
for a player to work. Based out of the New York area, and with
offices in Milan, Barcelona, Athens and Zadar, Croatia, Entersport is an
"insider" in all major basketball circles having experienced
representatives with the ability to speak numerous languages and
negotiate contracts all over the world. In addition, Entersport
successfully seeks out various endorsement opportunities for its
clients on international, national and local levels with a wide
array of companies and corporations.
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