Playmakers: The Game Is Bigger Off the Court - Paperback

by Christa Pierce (Author)

Power. Prestige. Billion-dollar contracts. The real game isn't played on the court. Behind every superstar athlete is someone pulling the strings.

Inside Atlanta's elite Playmakers Sports Agency, careers are built, fortunes are negotiated, and loyalty is worth less than the next championship contract. Every draft pick, endorsement deal, NIL negotiation, and multimillion-dollar signing is a battle, and the fiercest competitors aren't the athletes. They're the agents.

• Marcus Walker built Playmakers from nothing after betrayal nearly destroyed his career. Now the former NFL star leads one of the most powerful sports agencies in America, where ambition is currency, and everyone is fighting for a seat at the table.
• Taylor Brooks is determined to prove she's more than basketball royalty.
• Imani Reynolds is carrying the weight of a family scandal while trying to become the next elite sports agent.
• Billy Huffington has the swagger to close any deal, but secrets that could cost him everything.
• Lauren Whitman will do whatever it takes to protect the empire she's helped build... even if it means destroying the people within it.

As the NBA Draft approaches, rival agencies circle like sharks, billion-dollar careers hang in the balance, forbidden relationships threaten to explode, and corporate espionage turns the office into a battlefield. Every negotiation has consequences. Every alliance has a price. And one betrayal could bring down the entire agency.

Playmakers is Book One in an addictive, drama-filled series about power, ambition, romance, betrayal, and the billion-dollar business behind professional sports. The rivalries have only begun, the secrets are far from buried, and the final page leaves everything and everyone's future hanging in the balance.

Playmakers pulls back the curtain on the high-stakes world behind professional athletics, where winning isn't measured by championships, but by leverage, loyalty, and who controls the future of the game's biggest stars. Because in this business... the athletes become stars; the agents decide who shines.