Aside from LV and Spicy Strips, there were all sorts of other endorsement deals.
Each one had been analyzed in detail.
Basically, all Tang Tian needed to do was decide whether to accept them.
That made things very comfortable.
And aside from all being one- to two-year deals, these endorsements had another thing in common: they paid well.
Tang Tian accepted most of them.
He was still very satisfied with Carl's work.
Last year, he had signed a huge batch of contracts. Many of the endorsements had performed well, and over the summer, Carl had successively finalized renewal deals for them.
With this new batch added in, his spending points were about to surge.
When last season ended, his contracts and some endorsement fees had already given him around 15 million spending points.
The new and renewed endorsement deals combined came to around 20 million.
On top of that, when he first joined the Pelicans, he had signed a seven-year, $217 million contract with Nike. This year happened to be the second year of that new deal.
In the summer of 2015, he had received an advance on three years of salary from both his old and new contracts. This year, he had $31 million in new endorsement fees, or $18.6 million after taxes.
Add in the $27.84 million max contract from the new season, which came to $16.7 million after taxes when advanced.
Once all of that was added together, when the endorsement money came in, his spending points could jump all the way to 70.3 million!
More than 70 million spending points—this was the first time he had ever possessed so many.
But this would also become normal for him in the future.
As his personal strength reached its peak, his endorsement fees were already unmatched among active