Local agent hits Hot Rod jackpot

His name commands neither the time-honored respect nor attentionof agent-lawyers George Andrews, Herb Rudoy, Bob Woolf and DavidFalk.

Not yet anyway. But give Chicago's Mark Bartelstein time.

In one deal last summer, he took on the giants and emerged as aninstant heavy hitter. He negotiated the guaranteed, seven-year,$26.5-million contract that set up Cleveland Cavalier forward John"Hot Rod" Williams for life.

Who is Bartelstein? Where did he come from? How did he do it?

The son of a commodities trader, Bartelstein, 30, was born inChicago and attended Highland Park High School, where he was a prettygood 5-11 guard who averaged 15.6 points a game …