Messi, Cristiano, Mayweather and now LeBron: the impressive figure they earn outside of their sports salary

Footballers, basketball players, boxers and all kinds of top athletes live like kings. The amount of money that they earn by advertising, partnerships and Instagram, which like a mix of both, is enormous. It is even higher than what a regular player can make only by doing was he is supposed to do, playing.

LeBron James is not the best paid star in the NBA, but he is the player that more money wins. His salary is for $31.4 million dollars, but at the end of the season, he will earn $95.4 million dollars. With this amount, he will achieve a statistic that Floyd Mayweather, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have.

LeBron is going to get $1.000 million dollars. This is a number that even Michael Jordan could not achieve. It shows how rich you can become by influencing people and being the face of advertising campaigns. Because nobody doubts, they are great athletes, but not all their money came from playing.

There some strange cases, like Cristiano that earns more money from Instagram than from his salary. Or Lionel Messi that earns more with Adidas advertising. Well, LeBron James is investing as well and he is about to reach such a mark. What is left for the regular players? The ones that are not capable of reaching the top?