Ha ha. More information needed. An Indiana basketball player, and former Indiana Mr Basketball reaches out to you inquiring about something your company sells or is involved with...did you just respond how you just typed, or did you ask him for more information, request a meeting to talk about it, etc...???
And, obviously, he was reaching out to you because you've floated deals to guys like Bates, X maybe?, in the past. He's in real estate, he knows you've "helped" out other players...
If it happened how you typed, and you just responded that it wasn't your expertise and couldn't "do a deal", if you were one of my sales people I'd probably fire you...at a minimum call you in and chastise you.