SLAM 3 Old School: Raymond Lewis.  According to an October 23,
1973 Philadelphia Daily News article by Jack Kiser, Lewis
received “a $25,000 bonus for signing and a 3-year contract
worth $50,000 the first year, $55,000 the second and $60,000 the
third. Only half the contract’s money was “guaranteed” and there
were more penalty clauses than one could shake a writ at.” There
were also some deferred payments. In short, it was not a good
deal, more in line with a third or fourth round pick.  After
spending his whole life dealing with agents, Lewis negotiated
this contract by himself. He no longer trusted anybody to
represent him.  Don DeJardin currently works as a player’s agent
in San Gabriel, California. During the summer of ’73, he was the
Sixers general manager and worked out the contract for Lewis.
The first thing he told me-with an obvious sigh-was that I was
about the 80th guy to come in search of the Ray Lewis story.
“There was a lot of time spent on (the negotiations),” says
DeJardin now.  “I ended up s