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This is a list of the highest-paid athletes in the world as ranked by Forbes magazine. 2024 list. The 2024 list: [1] Rank Name Sport Country Total Salary/winnings
Here are the highest-paid athletes in each of the top U.S. leagues and world's sports by average annual value, with contract information courtesy of Spotrac: NFL CONTRACTS: ...
This list does not reflect the highest annual salaries or career earnings, only the top 100 largest contracts and thus is largely limited to athletes in team sports and auto racing. Athletes in individual sports , such as golf , tennis , table tennis , boxing , kickboxing , and MMA , are not employed by a team and usually earn money primarily ...
World's Highest-Paid Athletes: On the Field or Off? LeBron James, Messi, and Giannis Antetokounmpo are the sole athletes on the list whose off-field earnings surpass their on-field earnings.
For the first time, the top-10 highest paid athletes have each earned more than $100 million, combining for a record $1.38 billion, according to Forbes.
The highest-paid NBA players by season has recently eclipsed $40 million. Wilt Chamberlain has the most seasons leading the league with 8. Michael Jordan holds the largest 1-year contract in NBA history, LeBron James is the highest career earner, and Stephen Curry is the highest season earner as well as the largest multi-year contract holder in ...
In addition to being the most-followed person on Instagram (455 million followers, to be exact), Portuguese soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo is the current third-highest paid athlete in the world ...
Five of the twenty highest-paid players in 2013 were members of the Yankees. Their team payroll for 2013 was $228,835,490, roughly $12 million above the second-largest Los Angeles Dodgers. [12] The Yankees have drawn criticism for their payroll, with some claiming it undermines the parity of MLB.