A detailed introduction of NBA agent Dan Fagan

The daily life of NBA agents is extremely mysterious, especially those famous big-name agents. The name dan fegan was first known to China fans because Yi Jianlian joined the NBA and his team.

What are the parts of Fagan's works on the day of the draft? How did he help a popular rookie like Wall to handle the sponsorship contract? How did he help those unknown rookies find teams?

Visit to Vaccaro 1

A year ago, "Kentucky point guard" was synonymous with this season's top-ranked Lang John Wall. Similarly, "Yale Lawyer" is a polite address for his agent, dan fegan.

So, can the name "Kentucky point guard" really explain all of Wall? Perhaps this is not entirely appropriate, because in the eyes of many people, Wall is not a real point guard. He only studied at the University of Kentucky for one year.

Fagan can hardly be defined as a Yale lawyer. As the agent of Wall, "Warcraft" Howard, Joaquin Noah, Vallejo, Yi Jianlian, Shawn Marion and many other stars, Fagan is definitely a big shot in the NBA agent world, but his behavior is quite mysterious. So far, only Varejao and former Cavaliers general manager Danny Ferry have been exposed to discuss the contract, and many details are unknown.

After tracking all the movements of Fagan on the day of the 20 10 draft, it can be affirmed that he is definitely a passionate and far-sighted strategist. Associated with his nicknames "Ivy League" (describing him as always smarter than others) and "Law" (describing him as always picky about contract details and obsessed with attacking opponents with tactics), these titles are really no exaggeration.

For Fagan, the itinerary of the draft day is no different from the workflow at other times. It consists of dazzling and overwhelming meetings-with his employees, some sponsors and various visitors, the meeting will be interrupted from time to time by his phone ringing, and the people looking for him are top team leaders like larry bird, danny ainge, rod thorne, mark cuban and Sam Presty.

The legendary "rights broker" Sony Vaccaro was the first visitor on the day of the draft, and he arrived at the Four Seasons Hotel where Fagan stayed early. The first meeting between Fagan and Vaccaro was introduced by Chris Dudley, who is now one of the candidates for the governor of Oregon. When Fagan was studying at Yale Law School, he was an elite player on the basketball team of Yale University.

Recently, the brokerage company in Fagan was acquired by Lagardè re Group. Lagarde is a French entrepreneur who loves sports and one of the top businessmen in the world. He owns aerospace, television and media, publishing, sports and other industries. After the successful acquisition of Fagan brokerage company, the brand-new brokerage company was named "Lagarde Unlimited".

Recently, Sony Vaccaro is working to sue the sports organizations of NCAA University. He believes that NCAA is suspected of deliberately preventing brandon jennings from skipping college and going directly to Italy to participate in professional leagues. Now, Jennings, who has made great achievements in the NBA, has become a source of confidence for Vaccaro. He tried to use Jennings' successful example to show people that it is also a right choice for young American athletes to develop in a more mature European league, which will be the focus of Vaccaro's future work. Therefore, he has a strong interest in the powerful Lagardè re Group and intends to cooperate with it.

Vaccaro's visit to Fagan is precisely for this purpose. He believes that Fagan's new rich boss can bring new life to his "overseas plan". "I googled him (Lagarde)," said Vacaro. "I think he can help."

Problems faced 2

Mitchell Butler is a former NBA player. Now, he is one of the agents of Fagan players, representing University of Texas defender avery bradley who will participate in the draft. The draft day comes as scheduled, and a rookie like Wall doesn't have to worry about his agent at all, because he has long been recognized as the number one draft winner this year. On the other hand, Bradley, an unlucky rookie, suffered an ankle injury, which seriously affected his pre-draft forecast ranking. To make matters worse, his injury prevented him from showing his athletic ability for the team that wanted to choose him. In fact, Bradley should have been a strong rookie in the lottery, but his bad luck forced Fagan and Butler to be busy for him-not insisting on the draft pick, just to find him a new owner.

On the morning of the draft day, many teams treated Bradley well and thought he was a promising young man. However, no team can be sure that they will choose him in the first draft. At this time of the year, some highly respected rookies suddenly fall off their horses quickly, and there are indications that Bradley may be next.

In an instant, an idea flashed across Fagan. He suddenly decided to spend the draft night with Bradley and his family in Seattle, so Fagan sent Butler to the airport to finish the task. Before he left, Butler showed Fagan the X-ray photos of Bradley's ankle, which showed that the situation was really not optimistic. Fagan told Butler to control the emotions and expectations of Bradley's family, because it would be a "difficult challenge" and the process would be slow.

On the other hand, Fagan also began to have serious discussions with his decision makers in his studio. They want to know how to improve Bradley and pay attention to his athletic ability. "He has been thoroughly tested and thoroughly investigated," Fagan said. "In many ways, he is like Russell Westbrook (Thunder guard)."

But just after these words, Fagan himself rejected the proposal, and he decided to promote his players in a difficult situation in another way: Bradley is just like the latest version of Jrue Holiday, another client player of Fagan (a rookie of the 76ers in 2009). "They are so alike." Fagan said. Both of them became popular after graduating from high school and were known as the top five in the United States; They have all played positions that they are not good at in college, and the results of their teams are far below expectations; Both of them collapsed suddenly and quickly before the draft, although-according to Fagan's words-time will prove that both of them will become worthwhile rookies.

Fagan's Works 3

Fagan is undoubtedly a busy man. It seems that he may call any general manager, boss or head coach at any time of the day, and the person on the other end of the phone is undoubtedly happy to hear from him.

On the day of the draft, the general managers don't want to see a good rookie like Holiday slip through their fingers, and Fagan's job is to try not to let this happen to this player as much as possible.

Fagan is undoubtedly an expert in handling such cases. He knew that the team participating in the draft would always swing between two players, which was the most difficult time for the team. However, through years of work experience, Fagan summed up a truth: when selecting players, only one or two advantages of players are valued, and the rest factors can be ignored. Therefore, once the players are labeled with distinctive and unique labels, the general managers will make a choice that is more in line with the interests of their own teams when selecting rookie, which is a win-win situation. So, Fagan sent the player report of "Bradley refers to Holiday" to the Celtics general manager Angie. As expected, the Green Shirts won the promising young defender with 19 in the first round.

Fagan's phone keeps ringing, even people like him who need to keep talking have to listen to it from time to time. Most of the calls he received were about which team was considering trading draft picks, or how people from other teams in the league commented on this player or that player. There will be some other customers visiting, such as the staff of Mavericks or Timberwolves. No matter what questions they ask, Fagan can almost give an ideal answer. In his quick answer, there is a long-term strategy that can provide good help to his customers. Afterwards, another phone call was waiting for him. ...

Businessman's humor 4

Albert Hall is the player marketing officer of Lagardè re Group. In a brief marketing meeting with Fagan, Hall gave him a gift-a brand-new brochure describing the brand-new value of john wall and Dwight Howard to sponsors. (Interestingly, Fagan's players with long hair are also mentioned in the brochure: vallejo, Noah, ricky rubio ... No other player owns this book as an agent).

On the day of the draft, Hall talked about the next Adidas advertisement of "Warcraft" Howard with great interest, but no matter who he talked to, the topic would always return to tennis player John Isnar. The latter recently set a number of records at Wimbledon and won the "marathon" competition. Now, that game has long been celebrated by the world, and Isnar has become famous for it.

A successful example like Isnar is one that Hall is very willing to share with customers. When he mentions his talented tennis player, he always smiles knowingly.

Fagan, like other busiest people in the world, never leaves his body with a Bluetooth headset. The information he receives is very complicated, but he seldom uses the convenient Internet to assist his work. He doesn't even take his laptop with him when he flies to new york from his home in Los Angeles. This is incredible to his colleagues.

Indeed, such a thing is hard to believe. When one of his men, Butler, is playing with his complicated iPad, using it to complete email query or add a new task list in just a few seconds, Fagan will coldly say, "Don't show off this!" For an old man who has been dealing with the same business for a long time, this is absolutely humorous.

Details of signing the contract 5

While Fagan was busy, another person was not idle. She is Fagan's assistant, Li Leshi. Joyce will help Fagan think about anything that might happen and its details-how much will Wall's celebration party cost? How is the contract comparison between Wall and Reebok? How many cars should I send to pick up Wall's family? Does Wall need a bodyguard tonight? Can the Four Seasons Hotel where I am staying change rooms for Fagan so that he can hold an impromptu meeting ... Such details are handled by Joyce.

Without the Internet, how did Fagan manage? "He has my help." Li Leshi said. Besides, she's not just talking.

When Wall joined Lagardle Group, his good friend Brian Clifton, the coach of American Amateur Sports League, was also recruited by Fegan as Wall's marketing manager. His first task was to help Fegan complete the contract with Reebok.

On the morning of the draft, Wall's latest advertisement for Reebok began to appear on TV. He wore brand-new Reebok sneakers on his feet. At this time, however, Fagan is still reviewing the contract with Clifton. Fagan failed to live up to his title as a lawyer. He has an unusually keen sense of this difficult rule. Prior to this, after careful inspection, he had revised many details of this contract. Before showing this "final agreement" to Clifton, Fagan never let Reebok see its true colors.

The meeting ended in a successful signing, and Clifton confirmed all the details of the contract. Subsequently, the contract was sent back to Reebok to complete the final step of signing. After the completion, Fagan slightly celebrated this successful business activity, and invited Tom Shane of Reebok to attend the celebration dinner held for Wall that night.

Speaking of Wall, although he is regarded as the first popular candidate in this year's draft, the No.1 scholar wisely chose to keep a low profile and did not celebrate for himself prematurely. Therefore, people can see that Wall kept a serious expression until david stern called his name.

After becoming the first draft pick in the history of the University of Kentucky, Wall almost choked up: "Now, words can't express my feelings. I grew up in a difficult environment and had a lot of troubles at school, especially after my father died. My mother sent me to school every day ... I want to say that I love her very much. "

Clever chess player 6

During this whole day, all the people who talked with Fagan wanted to extract as much information from him as possible, and Fagan always shared what he knew with each other completely.

Why is this? Why don't you keep some useful secrets for yourself? For example, he can use the information he has to tell the team manager to choose a player with a higher draft pick, because if he misses this opportunity, other teams will choose this player ... Such information may bring Fagan extra wealth, but he doesn't think so.

Fagan said that many brokers would keep such information confidential. "But I am a chess player, not a poker player," he said. "I'm glad to see all the information presented on the surface, and I can think of how to move in the next few steps. Others have different strategies and they don't want you to see their cards. "

In fact, when Fagan left his home in Los Angeles, he took a chessboard with him in his luggage. He said that almost all his employees can play chess. Even when the atmosphere of the celebration dinner reached its climax, Fagan was still thinking about the strategy in the chessboard, which was a confrontation with Sandro vallejo (the brother of Cavaliers vallejo and a former chess master). Yes, Fagan is such a person.

Although this is a gathering of top scholars, we should not forget avery bradley and congratulate him on being finally selected by the Celtics of the Green Shirt Army to help Fagan complete one of his most difficult tasks of the day. ...

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Speaking of Fagan, the biggest impression this person left to the industry was his "fooling" ability, and this is his greatest ability. After all, not every agent can make his second-rate or even third-rate players get the salary of a first-class star. However, Fagan has this ability.

Dan fegan is a famous agent in NBA. He graduated from Yale Law School, established a law firm in Los Angeles, and served as a professor of sports law at Pepperdine University Law School.

Fagan is also one of the most controversial agents in the NBA. In the past 10 years, he has become one of the most prolific and experienced agents in the NBA. In the past five years, he has helped players sign contracts of more than 800 million dollars. He also has more new means and skills to strive for the greatest benefits and contracts for customers.

The famous event is that he set a precedent of "one-year opt-out" for players, choosing to allow players to sign a contract with the team for one year before seeking a better contract. This method has been affirmed in NBA arbitration. According to the NBA's estimation, if you choose a one-year contract, you will increase the player's salary by more than 1 100 million yuan within one year! Fagan also pioneered the signing mode of "sign first and then change" similar to "one-year contract". "One-year deal" allows a team to sign a player, trade it to another team one year later, and retain its Larry Bird clause rights (the league recognizes that a player's annual salary can increase by 12.5%, and the player must play for a team for more than three years. In the meantime, you can't give up or transfer). Players who have benefited from this innovative method include shawn marion, Jason Richardson, Jason Terry, troy murphy, EduardoNajera, anderson varejao, Nene and China player Yi Jianlian.

Fagan helped General Arenas win a 6-year 1. 1 billion-dollar super contract. Incredibly, this contract was signed nearly two years after Arenas was injured! Of course, the most controversial case known to China fans occurred in 2007, when Fagan was bent on helping Yi Jianlian find an NBA team suitable for him to maximize the interests of both sides. It was not until the end that the United Arab League joined the Milwaukee Bucks, and they replaced him in the draft.