Arn Tellem

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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. 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 prestigous liberal arts school outside of Philadelphia.