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Lebron James Billionaire, a great first for an active basketball player

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This is the main news of the NBA next to the ”Finals” that will start tonight between the Golden State Warriors and the Boston Celtics.
The news was made public by the magazine Forbes, the heritage of LeBron James indicating that the fortune of the star of the Lakers Lebron James is estimated at one billion dollars. A record for a basketball player in activity.
As recalled by the French media RMC-Sport, the child of Akron in OHIO in the United States had declared in 2014: “If I get there, hip hip hip hooray! Oh my God, I’m going to be excited”. Eight years later, he is there, writes RMC.
Lebron James with this financial statistic continues to make history in sports and American showbiz.
Before the King as he is known the famous American basketball player Michael Jordan became a billionaire in 2014. However, MJ23 broke this record after ending his career thanks to investments in the Charlotte Hornets franchise, a basketball team in the United States
According to RMC, 37-year-old LeBron James has reached the billion-dollar mark as the NBA player with the most money from his salary. He has earned a total of more than $385 million with the Cleveland Cavaliers, Miami Heat and Los Angeles Lakers. His extra-sports income, from movie partnerships to cryptocurrency assets, is much higher. The estimate stands at more than $900 million.
Lebron James was in 2021 the second highest paid sportsman in the world with a salary of more than $ 119 million behind a certain Lionel Messi, an excellent Argentine footballer whose income was estimated at more than $ 125 million.
The brilliant Portuguese striker completes this podium occupying the third place of this ranking with an estimated income of over 110 million dollars.
Lebron James besides his basketball talent and his great fortune is very involved in social and philanthropic activities. In 2018 the ”King” created a school that had welcomed 240 children in need in his hometown, Akron, in the suburbs of Cleveland, capital of Ohio.