June 19, 2013

NBA: Dwight Howard’s agent confirms he was source of leak

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(PhatzRadio / ) — J’accuse! When David Stern points his finger at you he’s not kidding around.

Last week, the commissioner told USA TODAY basketball writer that ’s agent was responsible for leaking details of a meeting between the and the .

Ric Bucher of ESPN.com reports Fegan’s response is guilty as charged.

He admits to revealing that Howard doesn’t want to be with the Magic to start the season and told general manager Rob Hennigan just that.

“On the morning prior to Wednesday’s supposedly confidential meeting between Dwight Howard and Rob Hennigan, there were media reports stating a meeting was taking place later that same day,” wrote Fegan of LaGardere Unlimited in an . “Prior to the actual meeting, Dwight’s and I met with Rob, reminded him that we had not requested the meeting, had been reluctant to take it and were concerned that the Magic had leaked that a meeting was taking place.

“Both during and after the meeting, we continued to get communications from the media telling us that they had that the meeting was occurring and/or had taken place. After the meeting, some media requested comments on information they allegedly already had on what had taken place in the meeting. I want to stress that none of the information the reporters had about the meeting at this point came from us.

“After receiving these media inquiries, I called Rob and left several messages expressing concern that what had occurred in the meeting was not going to be accurately reported — as had happened on previous — and that we were going to respond to the media inquiries to make sure that reports were accurate. To a limited , that is what we did.”

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