It is a priori one less thorn in the side of Nick Nurse. Real GM reports Indeed, the Raptors coach has settled the dispute between him and his former agent Warren LeGarie. The latter had taken legal action last year against the technician, accusing him of having broken their contract unilaterally.
Warren LeGarie represented the Canadian coach but he had decided to leave him in 2020 to join Andy Miller, who had just joined Klutch Sports Group, the agency of the powerful Rich Paul, friend of LeBron James.
The dismissed agent was claiming a commission on the negotiations for the coach’s new contract, extended for approximately $32 million over four years in the fall of 2020. According to the plaintiff, the discussions had started nine months earlier, and the technician had broken off their relationships just before extending.
” Among other things, Nurse failed to comply with the terms of the Representation Agreement, failed to pay plaintiffs amounts owed under the Representation Agreement “, had written the authors of the complaint.
With the two sides failing to agree through arbitration over the summer, the case was due to go before a jury at a hearing in February. Nick Nurse, Warren LeGarie, Masai Ujiri and Bobby Webster, leaders of the Raptors, were to testify in particular.
