FAME Partner DANIELLE CANTOR is a "mother of two young girls" and also the "only current female NBA agent with a client," according to a profile by Candace Buckner of the WASHINGTON POST. NBPA Exec Dir MICHELE ROBERTS said, "Agents themselves tell me it really is a raw-knuckled brawl kind of business. It may be that it’s just the kind of work that women just find distasteful on some levels. I suspect that not a lot of women are trying to knock on these doors, and that disappoints me." Cantor, a '17 SBJ Game Changer, has "never really felt like a pioneer -- even though she has always kind of been one, stretching back to her days as a ballgirl in the first season the then-Washington Bullets hired females for the job." FAME Founder and longtime agent DAVID FALK and Cantor have been "together for every negotiation over the last decade." They "sit courtside to watch their clients." Once, while in the arena of a Central Division NBA team, the owner’s wife "assumed Cantor was Falk’s girlfriend." Cantor: "My goal is to prove myself with owners and GMs, so they know who I am and they respect me -- which I think has happened. But I’ve had to work my a– off to prove myself." Magic GM JOHN HAMMOND said, "David Falk is a man who’s done an awful lot in this business, to say the least. He’s a man that people in this league respect ... but at times, everyone needs a buffer and Danielle is definitely that for David." Though on the surface Cantor is a "foil to Falk," their business partnership is a "match made in Type-A heaven." Cantor: "I like to be behind the scenes. And I don’t like people talking about me or writing about me. But when I’m in a negotiation, when I’m in a recruiting meeting -- game on" (WASHINGTON POST, 9/28).
