Who is William Wesley
Now that football season is wrapping up and we can turn our attention to more important things like vacation. And, maybe just a bit on hoops.
But the question Henry Abbot from TrueHoop.com is asking is “Who is William Wesley?”. Who is the guy that has Michael Jordan and LeBron James on speed dial, and according to Brian Windhorst of the Akron Beacon Journal, is “doesn’t wear a uniform, doesn’t have a desk in any basketball front office and never speaks to the media. Yet, depending on whom you talk to, he is either one of the most powerful and well-liked men in the NBA or everything that is wrong with the underbelly of pro sports.”
Frankly, after reading through the few pages of notes, facts, rumor and inuendo, we are fascinated as well. The popular theory seems to be that he is a power-runner for the league’s elite:
“Welcome to the World of Runners
Eric’s story is this: Wes is the finest runner the NBA has ever known.What’s a runner? There are hundreds of them. They are guys who befriend basketball players and then deliver them to scouts in exchange for cash.
Eric says he is a runner himself. He says he used to be a runner for agent Arn Tellem. Tellem, says Eric, paid him a total of $250,000 to steer five players his way through the years. (I’m not going to play sleuth on that one, but for what it’s worth, Eric is from New Jersey and says they all got shoe deals from adidas.)”
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