Forbes.com has a great article on how LeBron James has made over $450 million during in his NBA career. It's fair to say that that's all the money LBJ has ever made since he came into the league at eighteen years of age.
That's pretty crazy, right? Well, he's only made $126 million of that from playing NBA basketball. The other $326 million chunk has come from endorsement deals and equity stakes, Cannondale and Beats Electronics, to name a couple.
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With the way things are going he's likely to hit the $1 billion mark before he retires.