Arn Tellem

Quick Facts

Full Name	Arn Tellem
Occupation	Sports Agent
Date Of Birth	Feb 21, 1954(1954-02-21)
Age	70
Birthplace	Philadelphia
Country	United States
Birth City	Pennsylvania
Horoscope	Aquarius

Arn Tellem Biography

Arn Tellem is one of the most popular and richest Sports Agent who was born on February 21, 1954 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Tellem was born into an Jewish parent and from Philadelphia. He was named by his mom for an ebullient knight from his Prince Valiant comic strip. He was raised along the Main Line and became a sports enthusiast at the age of eight when he began taking part in APBA Baseball, a mail-order board game. A few years later, in order to have luck on his wedding day the groom propped up his prized 1938 Hank Greenberg APBA card on the nightstand by the bed that was shared by the couple. He was 12 when he discovered the inspiration for his career from the legendary Temple University basketball coach Harry Litwack who was the one to answer an inquiry — “What’s your most loved dish? “–that young Arn had called an community radio station.

When he was in 1981, Tellem made his debut signing with an athlete who was a the pitcher Mark Langston. The following year , he was instrumental in helping the reliever Ed Farmer beat the Chicago White Sox in a historic arbitration settlement. Following the time that Langston became a free agent during 1989 Tellem managed to negotiate a record-breaking five year contract worth $16 million together with the California Angels. He persuaded that the Angels to sign the journeyman Rex Hudler for the league minimum and included an ingenuous incentive clause in the contractthat provided $1,000 for each plate appearance. Then, in 1995, he discovered an “voluntary retirement” loophole in Hideo Nomo’s contract, which let the veteran pitcher quit Japan and join the Los Angeles Dodgers. in 1997, the 5-year $55 million agreement Tellem struck in conjunction with the White Sox for Albert Belle changed the structure of the salary in the game of baseball. In the event that Belle left the deal in 1999, Tellem created a new five-year agreement in conjunction with the Baltimore Orioles worth $65 million. He also negotiated agreements of seven years, and $88.5 millions for the Mussina, in 2001; 7 years, $120 million and Giambi for 2002. and four years with $52 million and Matsui during 2004 and in 2007 Chase Utley signed a seven-year arbitration agreement worth $85 million signed with the Philadelphia Phillies. The agreement was the largest and longest contract ever granted to a second baseman and also the highest-paying ever in Phillies history. In 2012, after an hour-long negotiation that he had with his team the Texas Rangers agreed to a six-year agreement worth $60 million in exchange for Japanese player Yu Darvish.

In 1996, Tellem made his mark as an NBA agent by circumventing that year’s pro draft to maneuver 18-year-old Kobe Bryant to the Los Angeles Lakers. “Basically, I kept teams from picking Kobe by not giving their coaches access to him,” Tellem told Sports Illustrated in 2003. “I knew teams would be reluctant to take a chance on a high schooler without first talking to him and working him out.” From 2000 to 2001, he represented 14 of the NBA’s first- round draft picks and controlled 13% of the players in the league—42, in all. His basketball roster included Bryant, Reggie Miller, Baron Davis, McGrady, O’Neal and Brent Barry. As of the 2006 NBA draft, Tellem’s firm had represented the most first-round draft picks of any sports marketing and management company for seven straight years. Tellem and his team repped four lottery selections and six first-round picks overall. At the 2008 draft, they had six lottery picks and seven of the first 15 players selected, including Russell Westbrook, Danilo Gallinari and Derrick Rose, the No. 1 overall pick. Tellem negotiated contracts of four years and $60 million for Ben Wallace; and maximum salary deals of five years and $67.4 million for Joe Johnson; six years and $86.4 million for Gasol; seven years and $126 million for O’Neal; four years and $50 million for Antawn Jamison; five years and $87.8 million for Brandon Roy; five years and $65 million for LaMarcus Aldridge; five years and $60 million for Al Horford; and seven years and $93 million for McGrady. In 2009, Gasol reupped with the Lakers for three years and $57 million; a year later Tellem hammered out Johnson’s six-year, $123.6 million extension with the Atlanta Hawks; and, in 2011, Rose agreed to a new five-year, $94.8 million deal with the Chicago Bulls. When Tellem’s client Anthony Davis was picked first overall in the 2012 NBA Draft, the onetime University of Kentucky power forward became the first player selected by an NBA team to play in a full- length season since a 10-year collective bargaining agreement was ratified by the NBA Board of Governors in December, 2011.

In 2006, Sports Business Journal named Tellem the Most Influential Agent in Sports and The Sporting News named Tellem “Most Influential Sports Agent.” In 2004 and 2005, Tellem was the only NBA player agent named to The Sporting News “50 Most Influential People in Sports Business” and was recognized as the industry’s top agent by the magazine in 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006. In 2008, Sports Business Journal ranked him second among sports agents. Two years later Business Insider named Tellem one of the world’s four “best” sports agents. In 2013, Forbes ranked Tellem the third most powerful agent in sports; and first in basketball.

His graduation in 1976 from Haverford College in 1976 and graduated from his University of Michigan Law School in 1979. He started his legal career as an attorney with the law firm, which was then called Manatt, Phelps, Rothenberg & Tunney and his mentors were sports lawyers Alan Rothenberg and Steve Greenberg (son of Hank Greenberg). Tellem is a specialist in commercial litigation and law for sports and was subsequently a partner of the firm. He started representing baseball players. He was also employed for six years (1982-1989) as the general counsel for the San Diego Clippers, and was instrumental in the team’s relocation into Los Angeles in 1984.

Arn Tellem Net Worth

Arn Tellem is one of the richest Sports Agent from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Arn Tellem 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Arn Herschel Tellem (born on February 21, 1954) is vice chairman of the Detroit Pistons. From 1981 until 2015, the sports agent was famous by his representation for basketball players and baseball players. The Vice-Chairman of his company was Wasserman Media Group, a international entertainment and sport marketing company led by Casey Wasserman. From 2009 until 2010, he wrote a biweekly sport column in The Huffington Post. He also wrote columns for Sports Illustrated, the Op-ed page of The New York Times, Grantland, Detroit Free Press and The Japan Times.

Tellem has a wife named Nancy Tellem, former entertainment and digital media president at Microsoft. They first met in 1974, when they were both interns during the summer at Washington, D.C. Nancy is from the state of California, a Cal senior who was from San Francisco, worked for Oakland congressman Ron Dellums. Arn was who was a sophomore at Haverford was employed by a different California member of the House, Jerome Waldie, a member of the House Judiciary Committee. They have three children: Michael, Matty and Eric.

In 1989, he launched his own sports agency, Tellem and Associates. In 1999, SFX Entertainment purchased the agency and later named Tellem chief executive of SFX Sports. In 2006, Wasserman Media Group acquired his NBA and MLB player representation practices. Tellem became the President of WMG Management as part of the deal. He brought along a client base of about 50 NBA and 50 MLB clients, including Tracy McGrady, Jermaine O’Neal, Pau Gasol, Jason Giambi, Hideki Matsui, Nomar Garciaparra and Mike Mussina.

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On June 5, 2015 Tellem resigned from WMG and joined the front office of Palace Sports & Entertainment. At the time, he ranked first among NBA player agents in players repped (42), All-Stars (12), maxed-out contracts (six) and clients’ salaries ($324,980,992).

Facts & Trivia

Arn Ranked on the list of most popular Sports Agent. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Arn Tellem celebrates birthday on February 21 of every year.