The pair worked with one U.S.-based agent who never paid them. Another time, a client who had been with them for more than 10 years, on whom they had spent resources they were hoping to recoup, fired them before his first big N.B.A. payday. Mr. Ndiaye said the player, Ronny Turiaf, had told him, “You’re like my dad, but you’ve never negotiated free agency.” He wanted someone with more experience. (Mr. Turiaf declined to be interviewed for this article.) As a result, Comsport went bankrupt. For seven years, the French government administered a recovery plan for the agency’s finances.
New York Times
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