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Lin Takes Agent Along for The Ride

Found February 13, 2012 on Sports Biz with Darren Rovell:
TEAMS: Washington Wizards

When not many people believed in Jeremy Lin, there was Roger Montgomery. The sports agent, whose only other NBA client is Mo Evans, who plays for the Washington Wizards, traveled to Harvard during Lin's senior year on the belief that one day Lin would be an every-day NBA player.
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