Focusing on your basketball career

Limelight Hoops
Basketball Management

Services

What We Do

Limelight Hoops is connected to a broad international basketball network all over the world. The high level of talent, character, and work-ethic of our clients has helped Limelight Hoops to build an impressive list of clients in international basketball, and in turn has helped us develop tremendous relationships with many European top level teams based on our credibility and integrity.

As former professional players we know what our clients are going through, it gives us a better understanding and an edge over most other agencies. We build personal and trusting relationships with our clients that extend beyond the basketball court. More importantly, we pride ourselves on being honest and straightforward with our clients in good and possible bad times. 

Our players can focus entirely on playing basketball while Limelight Hoops guides them on all their career decisions based on our experience, knowledge and contacts.

CAREER MANAGEMENT & BASKETBALL REPRESENTATION

We help our young talents to reach the top of their abilities and also develop their character so that they can not only cope with the sporting demands, but also with the mental, media and social challenges in professional sports. Limelight Hoops supports their clients to make the right career decisions. We will plan your career with you, not for you.

MARKETING

We actively investigate advertisement opportunities for our clients that are suitable to the current stage of their basketball careers.

LEGAL ADVICE & CONTRACT NEGOTIATION

We have the legal expertise which is needed in the international basketball environment to negotiate and draft the contracts of our clients according to the highest possible standards. We do support our clients in all kinds of legal disputes by giving them legal advice, representing them in mediation and arbitration proceedings.

About

Who Are We

FOUNDED IN 1997, LIMELIGHT HOOPS WAS THE FIRST PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL AGENCY IN GERMANY. BEING ONE OF THE LONGEST-STANDING AND MOST EXPERIENCED AGENCIES IN EUROPE, LIMELIGHT HOOPS HAS ESTABLISHED ITSELF AS AN INDUSTRY LEADER. WE ARE A GLOBAL SPORTS AGENCY PROVIDING OUR SERVICES TO PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES AND COACHES.

Being a boutique agency we pride ourselves on the availability and personal attention to our clients, always giving them our honest and best service during their career and for their life after basketball. There is more to the client-agent relationship than just contract negotiations.

Team

Meet Us

Partner & Player’s Representative

Patrick King

After a successful college career where he gained Academic All-American honors, Patrick played professionally in Europe for nine years. A tireless worker who speaks three languages, he has spent more than twenty years developing and cultivating one of the most extensive networks in the European basketball industry. Coaches and general managers in the premier markets trust his evaluation of players and have come to value his honesty, integrity and professionalism. His knowledge of the European market has helped Patrick negotiate hundreds of lucrative contracts spanning all of the major competitions in Europe including numerous deals with Euroleague and Eurocup teams. Patrick has numerous contacts in the U.S. and uses them to aggressively promote our clients to NBA personnel. He resides with his family in Bonn, Germany.

Legal Counsel & Players’ Representative

Hubert Radke

Hubert is a former college and professional basketball player at international level, who turned lawyer once he finished his basketball career. He adds a unique and valuable combination of sports and legal knowledge to Limelight Hoops. His expertise in the area of sports law is undoubtedly one of the best in the industry. He offers to our clients a comprehensive consultation and representation in the basketball market. Hubert’s experience, both on and off the court, is valuable in building and developing our clients’ career paths. He resides with his family in Torun, Poland.

Founder & CEO

Ingo Wolf

As an International Studies and Business Management graduate by the University of Maryland University College, former professional player of the German National Team, BBL Sports Director and International Sales Manager, Ingo Wolf, founder and owner of Limelight Hoops, combines basketball and business experience in a unique and effective way. On top of being active in different positions in the basketball business for over 30 years, building a reputation of an honest, reliable and professional agent for his clients, he is knowledgeable and comfortable with both sides of the negotiation table. Ingo has built close and personal relationships with GM's, coaches and scouts in professional basketball around the world that can only be obtained by being on the road extensively and being in the basketball profession for decades. He commutes with his family between Berlin, Germany and Malaga, Spain.