RANSOM Dollar
Bill Business acumen and a humble have
helped make Bill Duffy one of the most powerful agents in
professional basketball.
As the 2002 NBA Draft wound down, agent
Bill Duffy stood in the back of the Theater at Madison Square
Garden, his hands full of various NBA team hats, with a
look of exhaustion painted across his face. He exhaled with
a wide smile, knowing that over the past three hours, he’d
just seen his client roster bulge, adding five first-round
picks (including Jay Williams, Drew Gooden and Kareem Rush)
to a client stable at his BDA Sports Agency that already
included several NBA vets, including All-Stars Steve Nash
and Antonio Davis.
“I’ve always had an interest
in the business side,” Duffy says a few days after
the draft. “I knew everything about sports—batting
averages, arena deals, ownership—when I was five years
old.”
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2002 Ice-T:
The Godfather of gangsta rap,
Ice-T reflects on the never-ending saga of a true hustler.
On hardcore
rap and it's influence: “Of all of hip-hop’s
genres, hardcore has been going the longest. The first rap
record Eminem ever heard was “Reckless,” and
to me that’s an honor. I call Eminem the bastard son
of a thousand gangsta rappers.”
On his diverse career: “I spread myself across
the culture with Body Count, Law and Order and Pimps Up,
Ho’s Down. New Jack City [made me] the first big rapper
to go into acting. I’ve already done more than I ever
expected to do, so I’m just rolling with it.”
On Pimping: “Pimping is very flamboyant,
and every cat would like to say that he can pimp something.
It’s a mind game. It’s easier to rob banks.”
On his
legacy: “I’m not a religious
person, but I’ve been blessed to be loved and respected.
It comes from talking truthful. The average person can hear
bullshit a mile away. That’s the essence of my success.
But I brainstorm. Every day I’m setting up a million
plots to try and get some paper. I’m a hustler.”.
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