David Falk

David B. Falk is an American sports agent who primarily works with basketball players in the National Basketball Association. Falk began his career representing professional tennis players for Donald Dells ProServ and is best known for representing sports icon Michael Jordan for the entirety of Jordans career. Besides Jordan, Falk has represented more than 100 other NBA players, and is generally considered to be the most influential player agent the NBA has seen. During the peak years of Falks career in the 1990s, he was often considered the secondmost powerful person in the NBA behind Commissioner David Stern, and in 2000 he had at least one client on all but two NBA teams. He was listed among the 100 Most Powerful People in Sports forstraight years from 1990 to 2001 by The Sporting News, and was also named one of the Top 50 Marketers in the United States by Advertising Age in 1995.

Falk was born to a middleclass Jewish family on Long Island, New York, the second of three children. Falks father had never finished high school and owned two butcher shops on Long Island, while his mother, Pearl Falk, had two masters degrees, spoke six languages, and had worked as an interpreter in World War II for Nelson Rockefeller in Latin American affairs. Falk described his mother, a teacher and inspirational force as a perfectionist, and called her the biggest influence in my life, the one who drove him to achieve great heights.

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