Staff Blog
David Falk’s Job
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| Falk (bot. r), with another client |
Jonathan Abrams, who is at the New York Times now after a stint as the LA Times‘ excellent beat guy for the Clippers, had an article earlier this week looking at just how Elton Brand ended up a Sixer. The story has a happy ending around these parts, but doesn’t appear to be as much of a fairytale in all places. From the piece:
“My last correspondence with [Brand] was July 1 at 7:57 p.m.,” [Clippers' Coach Mike] Dunleavy recently said in a telephone interview. “He texted, ‘Hey Coach, I have some problem with some language and the [early termination option]‘
“By the next morning, I texted him back and said I got it taken care of and to call me. I haven’t heard from him since.”
At that point, Brand recalled, his agent, David Falk, told him: “Turn your phone off. You’re not talking to them anymore. I’m your agent. Let me do my job.”
Dunleavy and Brand have not spoken since.
Abrams, who spoke about this with us in July, has been a champion of Brand’s good guy character for awhile now. Brand’s agent? Not so much.
