NBA He will earn more than 94 million this season
LeBron James remains the man with the Midas touch in NBA, and for the seventh consecutive season will be the biggest winner, as it continues to reach new heights.
The 36-year-old is not actually the highest paid player in the NBA in terms of his playing salary, but his off-field interests put him beyond his basketball teammates.
According to Forbes, James will earn $ 94.5 million this season, of which $ 64 million comes from sources other than his Los Angeles Lakers salary.
These non-sporting gains are a record for a US athlete and have placed James in an elite group. Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Floyd Mayweather as athletes with career earnings of over $ 1 billion.
In 2014 Michael Jordan he became the first athlete to score nine zeros in his bank account, but by then the NBA legend was already out of the game.
Jamesthe total for this season puts it at a distance of Tiger Woods and Mayweather as the only athletes to earn $ 100 million in a single year.