At this time last year, as improved as he was over the previous year, Pascal Siakam was not widely expected to be starting in Sunday’s NBA All-Star Game. But agent Todd Ramasar is not surprised at how quickly Siakam has arrived at the top level of his sport.



In 2016, in a gym watching Siakam work out before that year’s NBA Draft, Ramasar, a former UCLA basketball player-turned-agent, saw the promise— the length, the grace, the motor and the determination to do what it takes to become an All-Star. Ramasar told him so, and as part of his pitch to become his agent, Ramasar also told Siakam about a training and health monitoring ecosystem he was going to make available to his clients, at Ramasar’s expense, that would incorporate the latest developments in sport science and accelerate Siakam’s future development.



Siakam bought in. Ramasar was a former player whose own basketball career was cut short by injury, and from this experience, he...