{"id":284401,"date":"2025-11-14T17:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T17:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/284401\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T17:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T17:24:10","slug":"deandre-jordan-signs-with-smac-entertainment-for-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/284401\/","title":{"rendered":"DeAndre Jordan Signs With SMAC Entertainment For Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/smac-entertainment\/\" id=\"auto-tag_smac-entertainment\" data-tag=\"smac-entertainment\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SMAC Entertainment<\/a>, the management and production company co-founded by Constance Schwartz-Morini and Michael Strahan, has signed New Orleans Pelicans center <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/deandre-jordan\/\" id=\"auto-tag_deandre-jordan\" data-tag=\"deandre-jordan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DeAndre Jordan<\/a>, the company announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tJordan becomes SMAC\u2019s first active NBA player client as the firm continues expanding its roster in basketball. The company will work with him to build new business ventures \u2014 including entertainment production opportunities, endorsements, licensing, and strategic partnerships \u2014 as he broadens his footprint in entertainment media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tA three-time All-NBA and two-time NBA All-Defensive Team selection, Jordan twice led the league in rebounding. He won a gold medal with the U.S. Men\u2019s Olympic Basketball Team in 2016 and earned his first NBA All-Star nod in 2017. He currently holds the NBA record for best career field goal percentage at 67.4%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tA Houston native, Jordan played at Texas A&amp;M before being selected 35th overall in the 2008 NBA Draft by the Los Angeles Clippers, where he spent 10 seasons. He later played for the Dallas Mavericks, New York Knicks, Brooklyn Nets, and Los Angeles Lakers. Before joining New Orleans, he was with the Denver Nuggets and was part of their 2023 NBA Championship team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tJordan joins SMAC Entertainment\u2019s roster of sports and media personalities including Deion \u201cCoach Prime\u201d Sanders, Strahan, Stefon Diggs, DK Metcalf, Travis Hunter, Erin Andrews, and more. Recent SMAC-produced projects include Prime Video titles Evolution of the Black Quarterback, It\u2019s in the Game: Madden NFL, and Coach Prime. Upcoming titles include Netflix\u2019s three-part docuseries Prime Time and an untitled Michael Vick\/Norfolk State series at BET.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tExcel Sports Management continues to represent Jordan for his on-court career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: SMAC Entertainment, the management and production company co-founded by Constance Schwartz-Morini and Michael Strahan, has signed New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,10551,590,40112,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-284401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-deandre-jordan","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-smac-entertainment","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}