CAA Sports and ASM Sports are representing several high-profile NBA prospects and both are poised to have big drafts next month.
IN A RHYTHM
Agencies with the most first-round NBA draft picks for each of the last five years.
2014
CAA Sports: 6
Wasserman Media Group: 5
Priority Sports & Entertainment: 4
2013
Excel Sports Management: 7
Wasserman Media Group: 4
Five agencies: 2
2012
Excel Sports Management: 4
Wasserman Media Group: 4
BDA Sports Management: 3
Priority Sports & Entertainment: 3
2011
BDA Sports Management: 4
CAA Sports: 4
Wasserman Media Group: 4
2010
Priority Sports & Entertainment: 4
ASM Sports: 3
Wasserman Media Group: 3
Sources: Agencies
CAA Sports represents four projected lottery picks, including the potential No. 1 overall pick, Kentucky forward Karl-Anthony Towns.
CAA Sports also represents Ohio State guard D’Angelo Russell and Kentucky guard Devin Booker and co-represents, with Roc Nation Sports, Kentucky center Willie Cauley-Stein.
Last week, ESPN NBA draft analyst Chad Ford had Towns ranked No. 1, Russell No. 3, Cauley-Stein No. 6 and Booker No. 9. Website DraftExpress.com had Towns, Russell and Cauley-Stein ranked at the same spots and Booker ranked No. 13.
CAA Sports is also representing Kentucky center Dakari Johnson and University of Wisconsin-Green Bay guard Keifer Sykes.
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CAA Sports represents four projected NBA lottery picks, including Karl Anthony-Towns (top) and D’Angelo Russell.
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A team of agents at CAA Sports, including Leon Rose, Aaron Mintz, Austin Brown and Henry Thomas, will represent the players. Rose is co-representing Cauley-Stein with Roc Nation Sports agent Rich Kleiman.
ASM, the firm founded by agent Andy Miller, has signed a draft class of more than a dozen players that includes Latvian forward Kristaps Porzingis and University of Texas center Myles Turner. Ford lists Porzingis at No. 5 on his mock draft of the top 10 picks.
DraftExpress.com lists Porzingis at No. 8 and Turner at No. 11 in its mock draft.
ASM also signed LSU forward Jarell Martin, Syracuse center Rakeem Christmas, UNLV forward Christian Wood, Penn State guard D.J. Newbill, Syracuse forward Chris McCullough, Delaware State center Kendall Gray, Florida guard Michael Frazier II, Massachusetts center Cady Lalanne, Louisiana Tech guard Kenneth “Speedy” Smith, and Baloncesto Sevilla center Guillermo Hernangomez.
ASM is representing two Russian players: Denis Zakharov, a guard for Dynamo Moscow, and Andrey Desyatnikov, a 7-foot-3 center who plays for Zenit St. Petersburg.
ASM agents Miller, Stephen Pina, Matt Ramker, Christian Dawkins, Pere Gallego, Guillermo Bermejo and Janis Porzingis are representing the players.
“We are very proud of this draft class, not only the level [and] the stature of players we are representing, but the class and professionalism and maturity of the clients that we are representing,” Miller said.
