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Dear stupid agents....

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Dear stupid agents.... 

Post#1 » by Narf » Fri Oct 28, 2011 7:24 pm

If you violate the law to get a player when he's 14 years old, don't sue that player when he drops you after a few years in the NBA.

Minnesota Timberwolves forward Michael Beasley is accusing his former agent and an AAU coach of conspiring to forge a relationship with him from the age of 14 and giving his mother improper cash benefits while Beasley starred at Kansas State, all in an effort to land the basketball prodigy as a client.

Beasley laid out the allegations in a lawsuit filed in Maryland a month ago in response to agent Joel Bell's wrongful termination lawsuit against him. Beasley said Bell gave his mother living expenses when he went to school there, which would likely violate NCAA rules and federal regulations governing sports agents.

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Beasley was drafted second overall by the Miami Heat in 2008 and didn't find out about his mother allegedly receiving money from Bell and Malone until about three months later.

The lawsuit said Beasley felt "betrayed" by the men and immediately fired Bell. He later hired a new agent, signed his contract with the Heat and inked an endorsement deal with adidas, one that Bell claims was nearly identical to the deal he had set up for Beasley before he was fired.

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/7156617/michael-beasley-alleges-improper-benefits-kansas-state-wildcats-lawsuit-ex-agent

Seriously, you have to be a special kind of stupid to sue someone after doing that.

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