Michael Jordan earned his fame through basketball, but most of his wealth comes from another source.<\/p>\n
During his prime, he was the highest-paid athlete in the NBA, one season earning $33.1 million.<\/p>\n
However, the source of his billionaire status is an entirely different income stream.<\/p>\n
READ MORE: Conor McGregor targeting Michael Jordan\u2019s net worth to become world\u2019s richest sports star<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Michael Jordan is not just a sporting legend, he\u2019s a savvy businessman.<\/p>\n He has always made sure his pockets are lined with multiple sources of income.<\/p>\n Like winning money from fishing competitions<\/a> on his private yacht.<\/p>\n Or charging people a $250,000 membership fee to join his private golf club<\/a>.<\/p>\n Or selling his majority stake<\/a> in the Charlotte Hornets.<\/p>\n Of course, Jordan\u2019s journey to the Forbes Billionaires List<\/a> began with his NBA career.<\/p>\n <\/a>Nike<\/a>Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n After winning six championships and numerous awards he retired from the game in 1993.<\/p>\n During his final season for the Chicago Bulls, he earned $33.1 million, which made him the highest-paid NBA player at the time.<\/p>\n In total, he made $94 million throughout 15 NBA seasons.<\/p>\n That\u2019s a lot of money, but surprisingly it\u2019s not the bulk of his wealth.<\/p>\n In fact, like some people might know, most of his fortune<\/a> comes from his collaboration with Nike.<\/p>\n <\/a>Mike Von \/ Unsplash<\/p>\n He and the brand created the iconic Air Jordan sneaker together back in 1984.<\/p>\n Thanks to his mother, Jordan<\/a> added a clause to his contract with the brand that stipulated that he would earn a percentage of every shoe sold.<\/p>\n And a lot of shoes sold.<\/p>\n <\/a>Deepal Tamang \/ Unsplash<\/a>Pauline FIGUET \/ Unsplash<\/p>\n The brand expanded to include athletic apparel and accessories, as well as collaborations with other brands.<\/p>\n Last year he brought in $256.1 million from Jordan sales alone.<\/p>\n Since 1984 it\u2019s estimated he\u2019s earned $1.6 billion from this profitable venture.<\/p>\n And the huge cultural impact of Jordans suggests his wealth shows no signs of slowing down.<\/p>\n The post This is the business that Michael Jordan earned more money with than in his entire NBA career<\/a> appeared first on Supercar Blondie<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Michael Jordan earned his fame through basketball, but most of his wealth comes from another source. During his prime, he was the highest-paid athlete in the NBA, one season earning $33.1 million. However, the source of his billionaire status is an entirely different income stream. READ MORE: Conor McGregor targeting Michael Jordan\u2019s net worth to …<\/p>","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":43923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}