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The defender assured that Klutch Sports, created by Rey with his friend Rich Paul, he made him lose just over $ 58 million.
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One of the many businesses he has Lebron James thanks to his career in the National Basketball Association (NBA) is the player representation agency Klutch Sports, Which it handles next to its representative Paul ric, Those now facing a lawsuit from a figure of New York Knicks.
At the Dallas County District Court, the pivot’s lawyers appeared Nerlens Noel, Those who filed a lawsuit arguing that this company “He did little or no work” to secure contracts, launch teams and sponsorship agreements on behalf of the defender.
According to the Knicks player, LeBron’s agent “forced him to sign a number of qualified deals and minimum league contracts that were well below the true value of Noel’s services in the NBA market “, In a trade relationship that was maintained between 2017 and 2020.
Knicks player sues LeBron and his agent
The story goes back to the summer of 2017, when at Paul’s urging, Noel turned down a four-year, $ 70 million renewal offer from Dallas Mavericks, In return he signed a qualified offer to become an unrestricted free agent a year later and to be able to close a more lucrative deal, which never came.
But what motivated the Knicks star’s lawsuit was that LeBron’s representative demanded that the Basketball Players Association (NBPA) that the player pays him a commission of $ 200 thousand by commissioning the contract he had last NBA season.
According to Noel’s lawyers, the lawsuit wants to prove that teams like Philadelphia 76ers they tried to contact Paul to discuss the possibility of signing him, but he did not accept or return his calls, so they will seek a declaratory sentence to prove monetary damages from Klutch Sports “In an amount to be tested at trial”.
