By Keith Glass
NBA agent Keith Glass shoots and ratings in his hilarious examine the NBA behind the curtain, from a man who has been in the course of the various NBA's such a lot debatable tales. The NBA is in difficulty. And as NBA agent Keith Glass describes it - he's a part of the matter! If group proprietors are prepared to throw hundreds of thousands of bucks his method for marginal avid gamers, why should still he be the one one with the self-restraint to assert "no"? In his insightful, humorous, and infrequently mind-numbingly weird and wonderful stories of lifestyles within the NBA, Keith Glass we could it fly from half-court. Glass shatters the parable of NBA advertising: that every little thing in regards to the video game is superb, that tickets are worthy over $100 apiece, and that so long as the enthusiasts within the luxurious containers are satisfied and weighed down with jerseys and item, all is easily. yet don't have any worry! Keith Glass won't pontificate in regards to the evils of spotlight movie slam-dunks and gang big name rap tattoos - he'll simply have you ever falling down giggling as he flagrantly fouls the league that used to be the house of Jordan, Magic, and fowl - let alone Wilt, Russell, Kareem and the entire greats in among.
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Ducky then proceeded calmly to take off his shoes and go to sleep in Michael’s bed. Michael returned an hour later and was faced with the horrifying discovery of Mr. Drake asleep in his bed. His decision now was to either be later than he already was or to wake up Mr. Drake. He decided on choice C, which was to call Coach I’M BICOASTAL 27 Glass. I said that he was on his own with this one. He woke up Ducky, and Mr. Drake just calmly got out of his bed, put on his shoes, and went back to his room.
The message was that I should call Zwebe immediately. The reason he hadn’t been laughing was because he was planning. He told me that everybody thought the story was a riot and that they were going to do it that Saturday night on the show. I cancelled the Rivers recruitment. I went right back to the airport first thing in the morning and flew immediately back to New York. All I needed was to have people tie the university to this fiasco. I explained to Zwebe that there could be no way that I or the university could be associated.
This was in approximately 1959, and I finally got all of the shaving cream out sometime in early 1993. Apparently, Larry got over this incident because sixteen years later, I found myself working at Coach John Wooden’s basketball camp in Malibu, California. Just being around Coach Wooden was bizarre. I actually was feeling some guilt due to the dark thoughts I had about him way back when, but I figured I could always lay those off on Brent. It was during the first week that I noticed that one particular guy spent the most time with Coach—the commissioner of the camp.