NBA It will earn more than 94 million this season
Lebron James is still the man with the Midas touch in the NBA, and for the seventh consecutive season will be the player with the most wins, as he continues to reach new heights.
The 36-year-old isn’t actually the highest paid player in the NBA in terms of his playing salary, but his off-court interests place him beyond his basketball teammates.
According to Forbes, James he will earn $ 94.5 million this season, with 64 million of these coming from sources other than his Los Angeles Lakers salary.
These non-sporting gains are a record for an American athlete and together with James form an elite group Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi i Floyd Mayweather as athletes with professional earnings in excess of $ 1 billion.
In 2014 Michael jordan he became the first athlete to achieve nine zeros in his bank account, but by that time the NBA legend was already retired from the game.
JamesThis season’s total puts him at a poignant distance of Tiger Woods i Mayweather as the only athletes to earn $ 100 million in a single year.