Chapter 1 Fegen's Recent Busyness

Fegen was a little busy recently.

The additional clause in the 1.6 billion contract that FOX and the Pelicans signed was unprecedented, making Tang Tian the center of attention.

In other words, in this signing, the outside world saw Tang Tian's unconventional commercial value.

That was even greater than Jordan's.

Walmart, Microsoft, Boeing, Metropolitan, and other large companies from all walks of life contacted Fegen, hoping that Tang Tian could become their spokesperson.

And that was just in the United States.

In Asia and Europe, a number of luxury brands also hoped that Tang Tian could become their regional or global spokesperson.

After the signing of this 1.6 billion broadcast contract, the name Tang Tian represented not only an individual, but also a brand.

What Fegen had been busy with during this period was negotiating contracts with representatives of various brands, and then summarizing them.

On this day of the offseason, Fegen took the preliminarily compiled contracts of intent to Tang Tian's manor.

Tang Tian was summarizing training methods for Zhou Qi. After Fegen arrived, Tang Tian asked him to read them out one by one while he made his selections.

"SoftBank's 5 million endorsement? The price is good, but let's forget about Japanese companies. I don't have much affection for Japanese companies. Skip those if there are any more later."

"..."

"Apple offered a 10 million endorsement fee? They're really generous. How much is Huawei offering? 8 million? Then sign with Huawei."

"..."

"Durex even wants me to be their spokesperson? Don't they know I'm preparing for a second child? The endorsement fee has gone up again? Then let's sign it. Anyway, I won't lose out."

"..."

"Let's continue the BMW endorsement. At least theirs doesn't leak oil, but I hope they can lower the price in the Chinese market. They don't lack sales now."

"..."

"ID Plastic Surgery? Korean plastic surgery? What the hell? I'm naturally beautiful. I can't take this endorsement. If I do, people will think I got plastic surgery."

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Fegen brought more than 40 contracts, and Tang Tian only selected about 10 after filtering them.

"Tang, I think you should listen to my advice more when it comes to endorsements. Your current choices are a bit too... broad."

Fegen said it relatively implicitly. He knew that Tang Tian had always been willful in this area, but he couldn't say such things to his face.

"It's okay, just like that. How much is the total endorsement fee?"

Tang Tian waved his hand. He knew that Fegen talked about interests, but as a time-traveler, he could still see the difference in endorsements.

"About 50 million."

Tang Tian calculated after hearing this.

He had 7 million left in his previous top-up value, 6 million from the last year of the BMW endorsement in the summer, plus about 15 million from other sources.

The 50 million here would be about 30 million after taxes, adding up to about 45 million.

He was still about 5 million short of the top-up value he wanted to exchange for the breakthrough skill.

"Talk to those endorsement companies separately and raise the total amount to about 60 million."

Although Tang Tian's elementary school math was taught by a PE teacher, he learned it well and quickly calculated the difference.

Although there was a slight deviation.

"This is difficult, but I'll try my best."

Fegen hesitated, but finally nodded and said.

Although there were many brands that could be endorsed, many of them actually overlapped in the industry.

Just like when Tang Tian endorsed Burt's Bees before, he wouldn't endorse Head & Shoulders.

Or, for example, now that he had chosen Huawei, he couldn't endorse Apple.

If two competing brands were both endorsed by him, there would probably be fights every day during offline sales.

The best way for Tang Tian to increase the total endorsement fee was to follow his advice and choose those with higher endorsement fees.

But Tang Tian had already rejected this proposal earlier, so all he could do was try his best.

"Don't feel too much pressure."

Tang Tian didn't put pressure on Fegen either. It would be great if he could raise it.

If he couldn't, it would just be pushed back to November at most.

The Coca-Cola endorsement was about to expire again, and renewing it would bring in a considerable top-up value.

At that time, the top-up value would be enough no matter how he calculated it.

The next day, the Pelicans hosted the Bucks at home.

The Bucks were abused in two preseason games, and they couldn't escape that misfortune in the regular season.

They were suppressed by the Pelicans throughout the game, and like in the preseason, they surrendered in the first half.

The Bucks' Big Three had a lot of problems. Giannis Antetokounmpo had no shooting ability, Gordon Hayward's personal offensive ability was weak, and Kyrie Irving's defense was easily targeted.

It wasn't obvious against other teams, but it was really a bit miserable against the Pelicans.

The Pelicans easily defeated their opponent, winning their sixth consecutive game since the start of the season.

And after this game, the headlines of major media outlets were all occupied by Tang Tian.

Not because of the game, but because of the endorsements.

Tang Tian signed ten endorsements in one breath! The total price was as high as 55 million US dollars!

In the end, Fegen did his best but still couldn't negotiate the endorsement fee that Tang Tian hoped for, but the average amount of an endorsement contract reached 5.5 million!

This was already an exaggerated figure!

Including his Nike and NBA contracts, his income this year had already exceeded 100 million!

This was really approaching Jordan.

New York headquarters.

"Damn it!"

Adam Silver's chest rose and fell sharply after seeing the news report.

FOX and the Pelicans signed 1.6 billion, and these brands signed 55 million with Tang Tian. The Pelicans were going to turn the world upside down!

And the key was that this money had nothing to do with the league or him!

The benefits he had promised to the team owners were obviously not going to be in place, and he was still letting them watch the Pelicans make money.

Putting himself in their shoes, if he were another team owner, he wouldn't even give himself the vote to be appointed as the official president.

Adjusting his breathing, he looked at Borgia with sharp eyes.

From Walker's signing to FOX's endorsement contract.

His confidant had failed to deliver on what he had instructed him twice in a row. He was considering whether to replace him.

"Any other news? About the Pelicans."

He had been having Borgia monitor the Pelicans' movements.

"I heard that Coca-Cola is discussing with Nike about releasing a co-branded shoe for Tang."

Borgia hesitated before saying.

Silver felt a headache instantly after hearing this.

He was already angry enough, and Borgia was still saying bad news to irritate him.

Couldn't he hear some good news for once?!

"Get out! Get out!"

He couldn't bear it any longer and roared directly at Borgia.

Borgia was taken aback. Silver's mood swings had been too great recently.

But he also knew that Silver was angry, so he didn't say anything, nodded, and went out.

"Bastard!"

After Borgia went out, Silver slammed the table angrily.

After his comeback this time, things had been going quite smoothly at the beginning.

But ever since the Pelicans formed their brotherhood basketball team, it had all been bad news.

One after another, it was like piling stones on him. Now it was piled up like a mountain, and he was completely out of breath!