A Legal Expert On Nerlens Noel Suing Rich Paul

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🗓️ 1 September 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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On this bonus episode Jason talks with sports lawyer and founder of the Sports Agent Blog, Darren Heitner. Darren is an expert in the field of sports business litigation and tells Jason about the inner workings of these types of disputes as well as what he expects to happen in the process of Nerlens Noel’s suit against his former agent Rich Paul of Klutch Sports. For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/takeline.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Extra Takes. As you know, we've been releasing these bonus episodes to dive deeper
0:09.7	into relevant news stories in the sports world. Today, it's the lawsuit filed by New York
0:16.1	NYX Center, New Orleans, New Well, against his former agent, Rich Paul of Clutch Sports alleging
0:24.1	a abrogation of fiduciary duty on New Orleans, bro half. In this episode, I'll be talking with
0:30.6	sports lawyer Darren Heitner, who is represented athletes such as Brandon Marshall,
0:35.6	Tarell Owens, that Tarell, that's my quarterback Owens,
0:38.9	Anna Kornikova, Andrew Wiggins, Mani Ramirez, just to name a few. He's also the founder of
0:43.2	the Sports Agent Blog, where you can find a copy of the lawsuit, New Orleans, New Well, filed against
0:47.3	his former agent, Rich Paul. We dive into the lawsuit itself and how these legal disputes affect
0:52.5	the business of sports and the ramifications of any impending litigation. Please take a listen.
1:06.1	Darren, thanks for joining us. This great write-up on your blog, Sports Agent Blog,
1:14.8	go see it there with some good context and the original litigation papers. Take us through what
1:21.9	this suit is alleging. I don't know that I've ever seen one like this. Most of the incidents in
1:29.7	which talent or athletes sue their agents, it's flat-out fraud is being alleged. Somebody stole
1:37.1	money. This is not that. It's not. In fact, it's a breach of fiduciary duty, much like alleging
1:45.9	that someone stole from you. But here, what New Orleans, New Well has alleged is that Rich Paul,
1:53.9	clutch sports, had a duty to do what was in his best interest and failed on multiple occasions
2:00.3	in that regard. Going all the way back to New Orleans, New Well, making a decision to terminate his
2:06.8	previous representation that being happy Walters in favor of going with Rich Paul and clutch sports
2:14.0	as his representatives and indicating that at the time, essentially, Rich Paul, this is New
2:22.2	Orleans Noel's allegation, but that Rich Paul promised him that he would be making tons of money
2:30.0	by doing so and that he should just deny and refuse the offer that was on the table from the Dallas
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