Silver’s Lionizing Playbook: AAU Hoops Baron Builds Brand on Praise
Bryan Freedman, the prominent celebrity lawyer, is no stranger to receiving panicked calls at odd hours of the day. The attorney has represented some of the highest of high-profile individuals at their lowest of lows.
But on an early morning in April 2011, the cry for help on the other end of the line did not come from a movie star or broadcaster in a legal crisis. Rather, it belonged to an AAU basketball coach named Ryan Silver, who had just awoken in a Las Vegas hospital after an all-night bender.
Silver, then in his early 30s, was in Sin City at the time coaching one of the premier squads for Pump-N-Run, the elite grassroots hoops program run by the basketball influence-peddling brothers, David and Dana Pump. Freedman’s son, Spencer, was among the hundreds of young players Silver had coached, and would eventually go on to play at Harvard.
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