NBA Will earn more than 94 million this season
LeBron James the man with the Midas touch remains in the NBA, and for the seventh consecutive season, he will be the top-earning player as he continues to reach new heights.
The 36-year-old isn’t actually the highest-paid player in the NBA in terms of salary, but his out-of-court interests put him above his basketball mates.
According to Forbes, James will earn $ 94.5 million this season, 64 million of which will come from sources other than his Los Angeles Lakers salary.
Those non-sporting earnings set a record for an American sportsman and put James together with an elite group Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Floyd Mayweather as athletes with a career income of more than a billion dollars.
In 2014 Michael Jordan became the first athlete to have nine zeros in his bank account, but by then the NBA legend was already retired.
James‘total for this season puts him within reach of Tiger Woods and Mayweather the only athlete to earn $ 100 million in one year.