Arn Tellem

Arn Tellem is a player agent for various major sports and is the top agent for NBA players, having negotiated over $200 million worth of contracts for his NBA clients for the 2006-2007 season alone. He participated in the founding of SFX Sports as the vice president of baseball operations and he incorporated his firm Tellem and Associates into SFX. After Randy Hendricks resigned from his post as baseball president at SFX in 2003, Tellem was appointed the president of the baseball division. He resigned from this position in 2006 and exercised an option to pull his agency out of SFX Management. He then sold the business to Wasserman Media Group, becoming company president and taking with him most of the players that he represented.

Tellem is an alumnus of Haverford College, a liberal arts school outside of Philadelphia. He graduated from the highly ranked University of Michigan Law School, at Ann Arbor, in 1979. He began his career as an attorney in the law firm then known as Manatt, Phelps, Rothenberg & Tunney, where his mentors were noted sports attorneys Alan Rothenberg and Steve Greenberg (son of baseball legend Hank Greenberg). He began representing baseball players and also served six years as general counsel of the San Diego (later Los Angeles) Clippers. [ [http://www.allbusiness.com/north-america/united-states-california-metro-areas/260012-1.html "Power Player," "Los Angeles Business Journal" July 1, 2002] ]

His current NBA clients include Jermaine O'Neal, Tracy McGrady, Kendrick Perkins, T.J Ford, J.J Reddick, Ben Wallace, and Yao Ming. Ranked the #1 agent by Hoopshype.com, Tellem is currently (2007) agent for 37 NBA players, 7 NBA All-stars, and young guns such as Lamarcus Aldridge, Brandon Roy and Jordan Farmar from the 2006 draft. He also represents a plethora of other athletes such as baseball's Jason Giambi, Frank Thomas and Hideki Matsui. [ [http://www.hoopshype.com/agents/arn_tellem.htm HoopsHype.com client list] ] He is married to Nancy Tellem, President of CBS Paramount Television Network Entertainment Group.

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