Westbrook Keeping It In (The Bruin) Family

by Nestor on Jun 6, 2008 5:01 PM PDT in Basketball Comment 4 comments

In case anyone here missed it, there was a piece of information in Dohn’s report re. Westbrook’s signing with an agent, I found pretty interesting:

Westbrook, who was a sophomore guard last season, said he will be represented by the Wasserman Media Group, founded a decade ago by UCLA graduate Casey Wasserman.

Does the name Casey Wasserman ring a bell for any of you here? It should. Casey, a UCLA graduate (who BTW is owner and CEO of the LA Avengers ), is good Bruin. We have posted this before, but it never gets old. Here is, once again, a little flash back from 2003:

According to the Los Angeles Times, Casey Wasserman, the grandson of deceased movie studio founder Lew Wasserman, provided a private plane to take Howland from Pittsburgh to California.

Yeap, I will never forget reading about that specific detail while following the epic hiring search process in 2003. Also per a Fox Sports report we blogged about last December (during the long football coaching search), Casey is “a huge benefactor toward the Bruins' current massive remodeling of Pauley Pavilion.”

In other words, I think it is great to see RW signing with a former Bruin. It is always nice to see the Bruin family getting stronger by closely working with each other.

GO BRUINS.

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LOVE that

i think another notable Bruin alum/respected sports agent is Don Yee (represents Tom Brady). nice, brief article on Yee: http://www.sportsagentblog.com/?p=349

by deepdish on Jun 6, 2008 7:49 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Nice, but...

What is far more gratifying to me is that RW has suggested that he would finish up his coursework post-draft to keep UCLA’s APR going in the right direction. That seems way more important than the fact that our fellow alums are picking up their share of the business from these “early outs”.

I wish that other “early outs” (or more specifically, one “early out”) had the same respect for the academic side of the equation that RW is demonstrating. Go get em, Russell.

by islandbruin on Jun 6, 2008 10:15 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

totally

and i hope these degrees these guys make these arrangements to receive by way of finishing classes via summer school are because they want degrees, and not because of the APR.

by deepdish on Jun 7, 2008 12:58 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

RW News

Chad Ford wrote that the Knicks brought Westbrook in for a workout recently. And supposedly Donnie Walsh was looking at him for the Pacers before he took the Knicks job, so perhaps RW gets in the top 10. Best of luck to him.

by McNown to Farmer on Jun 7, 2008 8:54 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs