More on Zack Rosen's NBA prospects

Believe it or not, there was a lot that didn't make it into my long read in today's DP about Zack Rosen's professional basketball aspirations, so I thought I'd share a little more here.

Rosen sat down two weekends ago and heard pitches from about a half-dozen agencies that are seeking to represent him. It's a difficult process because different agents bring different qualities and skill sets to the table, and since Rosen doesn't know where he'll end up, it's kind of a gamble no matter what he does.

It’s not an easy process because it’s like — do you want to go with a bigger agency that represents all these NBA guys and you’ll be one of them, but are they going to do everything they can for you? are they going to make you feel special? Are you always going to have access to them? Or do you want to go with someone who’s up and coming.
Do you go with someone who has more pull with NBA people but doesn’t know much about Europe — there’s so many factors. It’s exciting.

Listen to what they have to say and then sit down and evaluate what you want. That stuff’s foreign to me, I don’t know about it. Jerome knows tons about it because he played for so long, and coach Hurley knows so much about it because of Bobby [Hurley, his brother] and what they went through with that. [Bobby was a first round NBA pick in 1993 out of Duke].

Finally, just for fun I asked Rosen where he thought he'd be in 20 years. I have no clue what my answer would be to this question, but Zack had a pretty clear idea. It goes without saying that it involves basketball:

Married happily with kids. I’ll never get away from basketball. … There’s nothing that I’ve found in life yet that I’m more passionate about. If you’re that passionate about something, you’re gonna do it. If it came down to going out or sitting in my room and watching some lower level D-I game that had a good coach and I was watching strategy, I love that.
I don’t know if college coaching is for me. Just because the hours are ridiculous. People don’t realize what those guys go through, on the road. That would have to be the right fit for me to do it. But I really could see myself coaching high school. [Butler senior Ronald] Nored doesn’t even want to play, he’s going to be the head coach at Gordon Heyward’s old high school starting next year, he already signed. He’s excited about being a high school coach.

The way coach Hurley and the people at St. Benedicts and my high school coach at Colonia, the way they influenced me changed my life, if I could have that positive influence on kids 14-18 years old and change the trajectory of where they’re going to go, to me there’s nothing more satisfying.

Where else are you going to have that kind of impact on people directly. In business? I don’t know how. There might be. I just don’t see that yet. And I’m not as passionate in that area. If I can touch people’s live through coaching, teaching, that would be awesome.

The farther I take it playing, the more opportunities I’ll have. The more people you meet, the more you learn.