[Jones] Breaking: Utah Jazz first round pick Ace Bailey is parting ways with manager Omar Cooper, League Sources tell The Athletic. Bailey, who was the No. 5 pick of the 2025 NBA Draft, is in the process of seeking new representation

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1. surprised pikachu face

2. Thank god

3. Kinda wish he came to that conclusion like 6 months ago

   Better late than never I guess

4. Don’t think he needs to seek it yet… long time until contract negotiations.

5. Trilly Donovan said the NBPA was interfering. If so, W on them.

6. Honestly given the shitshow that was his draft process, probably a good idea.

7. There were some people behind the scenes saying the NBAPA “suggested” to Bailey that he needed to fire Cooper, which is the right thing to do.

   Anyway, that’s it for Cooper’s attempt to be an agent. He has no other clients, and he destroyed Ace’s reputation for no reason. The good news is Ace is still just starting his career so he can change that.

8. Big Daddy V will be his next agent, according to my sources

9. Prooooooooooobably a really good idea.

10. Cooper wasn’t even able to steer Bailey to one of the teams he wanted to play for and lost Bailey millions in the process by having him drop from 3 to 5.

    And then after all that, he had the gall to try to shoehorn his son as the Jazz’s Summer League “guest coach”.

11. Uncle Dennis 0.5

12. He’s in a pretty good situation to succeed where he is, without all the drama and whatever else his representation has brought. Not surprising; wonder how much the Jazz org might have had to do with it.

13. Serves him right

14. He and uncle Dennis def hangout at the same spots

15. Bub Carrington and Omar Cooper is why Ace Bailey is on my Jazz. Shoutout to those 2!

    My 12/25

    Hopefully, he finds Rich Paul (or maybe not because he’d tell Ace to go to a big market) or some other respectable agent to give him quality advice

    I would’ve assumed he would’ve created a lot of drama, and with him no longer in Ace Bailey’s ear, then there’s odds are there will be less drama

16. If yall listen to the Joe budden podcast, the co host ish is part of the cooper team and months before the draft he was talking bullshit about how they was handling ace. Allot of people knew that team was ass before it even grew legs. I’m glad he’s getting away from that cooper team

17. I forget the deal here – what did Omar Cooper do again?

18. Jazz fans 12/25

19. I thought he got traded lol

20. Ace has seemed fine since getting drafted. Just seems like he was getting terrible advice from this guy.

21. Uncle Dennis! Come on down

22. He should hire SGA

23. If I remember right the guy was previously arrested for selling drugs outside of a school.

    Not saying people can’t change, but the same type of predator that does that is the same one that sees a young athlete as a target. His social media was all flexing watches. Definitely conman vibes, glad Bailey got away.

24. Good

25. He should just go with Dylan Harper’s agent and make things easy. I’m surprised Harper didn’t get in his ear when all that went down. Harper seems like he has a good head on his shoulders.

26. Good it was giving janky promoters

27. I don’t think it was a coincidence that the team Cooper was trying to angle Ace to ended up signing his son to a 2-way.

28. He saw what uncle Dennis was able to negotiate vs his no show strat

29. This dude is speed running being out of the league

30. Good, Cooper gave him horrendous advice in preparation for the draft.

31. I’m available to hire.