At a café in Queens, New York, Tang Tian, Walker, and Fagan meet.

With a long face, a height of 1.8 meters, and a very ordinary middle-aged American uncle, if it weren't for those eyes that shine from time to time, maybe you wouldn't notice him too much in the crowd.

However, Tang Tian was quite familiar with him.

Because he is also Yi Jianlian's agent, and because he instigated Yi Jianlian and the Bucks to have a stalemate, he was complained by domestic fans.

However, most people only see the farce between Yi Jianlian and the bucks, but few people know the story behind it.

The 2007 draft was at the end of June of that year, but in March, Fagan specially invited officials from 7 NBA teams to Dongguan to watch the CBA finals of the current season, and in April, he arranged for Yi Jianlian to go to Los Angeles for more than two months of special training, and his team hired 6 full-time coaches for Yi Jianlian to teach shooting, sliding, defense, running and jumping and other basketball skills.

During that time, Yi Jianlian's weight increased by 5 kilograms, the bench press also increased from 80 kilograms to 100 kilograms, his shooting skills also improved greatly, and even every night, there was a special English teacher to teach him to learn English.

Including refusing to try out alone afterwards and shooting a video of the chair alignment, Fagan is constantly operating behind the scenes.

The mystical approach at the time proved to be successful, and Yi Jianlian was finally selected as the No. 6 show in 2007.

Even the farce with the Bucks was later proven to be correct, the Bucks were in chaos at the time, and they had no intention of cultivating rookies at all, if they really succeeded in the Hawks, Bulls and other Chinese big city teams, maybe Yi Jianlian would have a more successful career.

And when Fagan died unexpectedly, Yi Jianlian was the first to tweet his condolences, which shows that the relationship between him and Fagan is not at all as reported by the media.

Therefore, in terms of ability and judgment, Fagan met Tang Tian's requirements.

The only point, Fagan's greed for money, which is well-known in circles.

However, Tang Tian is not worried about this, the broker is just a broker, and the two sides are just a cooperative relationship.

The conversation between the two sides was very pleasant, Fagan's attitude was not too good, and the two first-round picks took the initiative to ask him, one of which was still a rookie in the lottery or even the top ten, and he probably was happy in his heart.

"Dan, your charge?" Walker finally asked him what he was more concerned about.

"It's easy to say, I'll charge a nominal 1% fee for the rookie contract." Fagan said with a smile.

Walker was stunned for a moment, the general broker is 3%~5% of the fee, at least 2%, Fagan's 1%, and the free is about the same.

He turned his head to look at Tang Tian, and now he believed that Tang Tian really knew how to do it.

"If it's okay, let's sign an agreement." Fagan saw that both of them had no opinion, and took out the contract from his briefcase.

"So fast?" Walker looked at Tang Tian with some concern.

Tang Tian took the contract and looked at it, basically there was no problem.

If it's an average player, you need to find a friend who understands the contract to make sure, but he knows this and knows that Fagan didn't do anything about it.

He signed his name, and Walker saw that Tang Tian had signed it, and he also signed his name on his copy.

"I'm going to do a good job of promoting you before the draft, and I believe you can get a very good pick." Fagan put away the contract and said with a smile.

After the contract was signed, the meeting was basically over, Tang Tian asked Walker to wait for him at the door for a while, and then went back to the café to chat with Fagan for a few more words.

"I want to be drafted in the front of the second round, do you have a way to do that?" Tang Tian opened his mouth and said.

"What?" Fagan thought he had misheard, Tang Tian's current draft market was at the end of the first round, and even he tried to find a way to operate it, and it was estimated that he could be very close to the 20th pick, but now Tang Tian said that he wanted to be selected in the second round?

Tang Tian nodded, not explaining.

Seeing that Tang Tian was serious, Fagan pondered for a while and nodded: "No problem." ”

"That'll do." After Tang Tian finished speaking, he then got up and left.

Looking at Tang Tian who was leaving, Fei Gen couldn't help but shake his head, but quickly nodded again.

"Is this rookie so confident in himself? It's completely different from Yi. He couldn't help but mutter.

Although Tang Tian didn't say it, he had done so much in the broker industry, and he had guessed that Tang Tian didn't want to be a cheap contract worker.

"What did you say?" Walker looked at Tang Tian and asked curiously.

"It's nothing, let's go." Tang Tian said as he put his arm on Walker's shoulder.

After Fagan signed with Don Walker, he began to build momentum for their draft, and by the way, he began to look for potential endorsement contracts for them.

Walker's sneaker endorsement went well, and Fagan quickly put him in touch with UA, and the two sides were negotiating a multi-year sneaker endorsement contract as soon as around the draft.

After all, Walker is a new MOP, and the draft projection is also high, which is a reasonable thing.

Tang Tian's side is full of unknowns.

However, he was not in a hurry about the sneaker contract, and he asked Fagan to help him find other endorsements as much as possible.

He said so, but what he didn't expect was that there would be results in less than a week, and the other party took the initiative to find the door.

A cake brand.

"There's a lot of talk about you eating cake during an NCAA game, and they want to use that to promote their brand."

When Fagan told him seriously, Tang Tian couldn't cry or laugh after hearing it.

At the beginning, eating cake was all about replenishing physical energy, but he didn't expect that now it has become a way for him to make money.

He really had to thank Olsen for that.

Thinking of Olsen, he suddenly thought of another very important thing.

"How much will they be paid for this advertisement?" Tang Tian asked.

"About $5,000." Fagan spoke.

$5,000, after deducting taxes, it is estimated that it will be less than 3,000, which is a bit low.

However, it is very rare for a rookie like him to receive an advertisement of this level without participating in the draft, and it is estimated that Fagan also took some tongues.

"If I shoot with Elizabeth Olsen, can I negotiate a high salary?" Tang Tian opened his mouth and said.

"Elizabeth Olsen?" Fagan hadn't heard the name.

"Sister Olsen."

Fagan glanced at Tang Tian in surprise, he didn't expect Tang Tian to know someone from the Olsen family.

He didn't know about Olson, but the Olson sisters were still well-known in the United States.

"If I can go with her, I'm confident that I can at least triple my pay, no, triple it." Fagan spoke.

"Okay, then it's decided, you talk to them first, and I'll contact you as soon as I have news here."

Olsen is now having a showdown with her two sisters, and it is no exaggeration to say that they are both worried about their livelihoods, and at this time, she has no reason to refuse to ask her to shoot advertisements.

It's a two-pronged thing.