Bill Duffy (basketball)
{{Short description|American basketball player and agent}}
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| draft_year = 1982
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| draft_team = Denver Nuggets
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Bill Duffy is a retired professional basketball player and agent specializing in the representation of professional basketball players in the National Basketball Association.
Career
=Basketball=
Duffy is a former basketball player, and played basketball at University of Minnesota and was later transferred to Santa Clara University. He was selected by the Denver Nuggets in the fifth round{{cite web|url=http://nbadraft.net/1989.htm#1982 |title=Draft History: 1982 Draft |publisher=NBADraft.net |accessdate=2008-05-13 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080407223221/http://nbadraft.net/1989.htm#1982 |archivedate=2008-04-07 |url-status=dead }} of the 1982 NBA draft (the team's fourth pick that year).{{Cite web |url=http://www.bdasports.com/ssp/about |title=BDA Sports - About BDA |access-date=2008-02-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080125165401/http://www.bdasports.com/ssp/about |archive-date=2008-01-25 |url-status=dead }}
=Sports management=
In 1985 Duffy's childhood friend, San Francisco 49ers legend Ronnie Lott helped him sign his first client, Cleveland Browns receiver Webster Slaughter. Duffy founded Walnut Creek based BDA Sports Management. Later he founded BDA Sports International together with Rade Filipovich. BDA represents stars such as Yao Ming, Steve Nash, Joakim Noah, Rajon Rondo, Luka Dončić.[http://www.hoopshype.com/agents/bill_duffy.htm HoopsHype – NBA Agents – Bill Duffy][http://static.espn.go.com/nba/columns/misc/1515609.html ESPN.com: NBA - With Yao, agent Duffy stands tall, too][https://www.espn.com/nba/news/story?id=4286112 "Ainge's criticism of Rondo angers agent"], ESPN, accessed June 25, 2009. Retrieved on 2009-07-10[http://bdasports.com/news/] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080208063233/http://www.bdasports.com/ssp/athletes |date=February 8, 2008 }}{{cite web |url= https://www.forbes.com/profile/bill-duffy/ |title= Bill Duffy |work= Forbes |date=2016-09-21 |accessdate=2017-08-07}}
Personal life
Duffy lives in the Bay Area, in Northern California with his wife and five children.{{cite web |url= https://www.espn.com/espn/magazine/archives/news/story?page=magazine-20021111-article34 |title= AGENT BILL DUFFY |work= ESPN |date=2012-07-10 |access-date=2017-08-07}} He is Catholic.{{Cite web|last=Seipel|first=Tracy|date=2019-02-26|title=Positive Change Agent—NBA Style|url=https://magazine.scu.edu/magazines/spring-2019/positive-change-agent-nba-style/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-06-14|website=Santa Clara Magazine|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210614005449/https://magazine.scu.edu/magazines/spring-2019/positive-change-agent-nba-style/ |archive-date=2021-06-14 }}