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“Since he was drafted in 1984, MJ has earned an estimated $3.3 billion when adjusted for inflation — more than any other athlete in history.⁠”

This list is based on an article by Sportico which puts Jordan’s $3.3 billion earnings at the top, around $800 million ahead of Tiger Woods, when adjusted for inflation. This is an important distinction considering a decent sum of MJ’s earnings came from mid 1980s to mid 2000s. If we take into account his non-inflation earnings, even then Jordan clears Woods by a significant margin.

He has accumulated $2.37 billion if we exclude inflation which is still around $600 million over Woods. While much of Jordan’s wealth has come after retirement, Woods is still active and stands at the top of active athletes with the most earnings. If we go back to the inflation-adjusted numbers, the prolific golfer has more than a billion dollars in earnings compared to generational soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo.

At any rate, Jordan’s incredible increase in net worth is also a result of his NBA ownership bid which multiplied his wealth significantly post-retirement. The NBA legend continues to make extraordinary business decisions.

Michael Jordan earned a lot through his Hornets’ ownership

In 2023, MJ stunned a lot of people when he decided to sell his majority stake in the Charlotte Hornets. After being a minority owner since 2006, MJ decided to buy majority stakes of Hornets (then Bobcats) in 2010 for $180 million. Last year, when he decided to sell these stakes, he had made approximately $2 billion in profits. This has given a significant boost to his net worth.

Although he has probably racked up more than $1 billion just through his long-term investments in Gatorade and Nike, it doesn’t compare to his Hornets’ majority sale alone. Now that his net worth has jumped over $3 billion, he has joined an exclusive club. He became the first athlete to join the Forbes 400 list. Now, he is among the 400 richest individuals in the US, ey another feat for the basketball legend.

The end of a 27-year-long partnership! The golf world has been able to witness an iconic collaboration between the likes of Tiger Woods and Nike ever since they joined hands in 1996. But their split, a little while back, does throw a little bit of shade in what was otherwise a perfect alliance. Well, now it appears they have managed to suffer yet another insult to their legacy, courtesy of Nick Dunlap.

The golfer is currently setting himself up for a win at the 2024 American Express as an amateur. However, while doing so, reports have emerged about a deal that the athlete has with a certain brand, all the while speculating an even better relationship than the Woods-Swoosh tie-up!

A slap in the face for Tiger Woods and Nike?

A tweet was shared by Josh Carpenter on his X handle (formerly known as Twitter) mentioning how Dunlap had supposedly bagged “a NIL deal with Adidas.” The reported partnership is said to have started last year, before the athlete won his U.S. Amateur Championship title in August.

However, as per reports, following the victory at the Cherry Hills Country Club and Colorado Golf Club, the “brand restructured the deal to be head to toe” as opposed to using just his name, image, and likeness (NIL) through marketing. Well, these speculations come off as a subtle jab for the legend and his split partnership with the Swoosh since both of them entered into a deal during the 15-time major champ’s pro entry. Meanwhile, the deal Adidas is reported to have with the 20-year-old started when he was just an amateur (which he still is, by the way). Nothing shy of a poke at their legacy.

Nevertheless, if the golfer does emerge victorious at the 2024 American Express, it would prove to be history in the making. Moreover, he would become the first athlete after Phil Mickelson in 1991 to win an event on the PGA Tour as an amateur, a feat nobody has achieved in over 30 years. There seems to be more good news on the way for the Adidas-Dunlap alliance.

Well, it’s not the first time that the news of the exit was met with a snub of sorts. However, this one came from none other than the Swoosh themselves, as they went ahead to delete the 82-time PGA Tour champ from its Nike Tiger Woods page. A journalist, Robert Lusetich, revealed the same while hinting at the success of the longstanding partnership.

The headlines of the golf world sure were abuzz with the news of their exit, following the legend’s choice of using FootJoy at the greens last year and his post on social media indicating the split. Nevertheless, it truly was one of the most successful partnerships that the golf world, or even the sports realm, has ever seen. Although the amateur was reportedly able to one-up Mr.T, one can only wait and see whether the duo will be able to pull off a successful partnership like the pro had with Nike!

Tiger Woods thinks “there’s too much at stake to think about a Ryder Cup.”

The PGA Tour has reached a critical juncture and Woods, a new addition to the circuit’s Policy Board, has stressed that he is too focused on finalising a deal with LIV Golf’s Saudi backers to start plotting revenge on the Europeans at Bethpage in 2025.

But while the Team USA captaincy seat remains unfilled and Woods remains coy, speculation will only intensify over his potential involvement.

Phil Mickelson has ruled himself out of the captaincy running on the grounds he is a “very divisive character”, while former vice-captain Stewart Cink admits his fate rests in Woods’ hands.

“I do want to be the captain and think I can be,” Cink said recently. “But with all due respect to Tiger Woods, I think it’s up to him.”

Whilst mounting his own comeback, Woods is now set to decide whether he should lead the Stars and Stripes in New York next year, or take on the ultimate challenge of winning away at Adare Manor in 2027.

Hunter Mahan, meanwhile, is utterly convinced that the 15-time major winner is the man to rise to both occasions.

“They should roll with Tiger for the next two and let it be a four-year commitment,” Mahan told bunkered.co.uk.

“You’re not too worried about the next one, being at home. The home ones are kind of easy because of the emotion and the crowd is on your side. The one in Ireland is going to be brutal. It’s not going to be the next one you’re worried about.

“I know players love Stewart [Cink] and said he was incredible in the team room so I could see him getting it – but I would have to roll with Tiger.”

Woods, of course, has a famously poor record in the Ryder Cup. In eight matches as a player, he has finished on the winning side just once – at Brookline in 1999.

As a result, some have expressed concern that Woods wouldn’t be a shrewd choice by the PGA of America to take on Luke Donald’s revitalised Europe, especially with the 48-year-old attempting yet another revival on the fairways.

But Mahan believes Woods the captain has the ideal skillset to lead the US team to back-to-back Ryder Cup triumphs for what would be the first time in 34 years.

“Tiger’s a great leader in his own way,” Mahan explained. “You’ve seen it in the Presidents Cup. With Tiger being in the leadership role, he’s a completely different animal. He has this military background which is all about groups and subsets.

“He would plan this thing all out and his preparation for everything would be off the charts so that when guys get there and the tournament rolls around, they would have plan. He’s going to have everything situated in a way that nobody’s really seen before.

“He’s going to be beyond prepared and learn from the past mistakes. You have to treat it differently, it’s night and day being at home and being on the road.”

Losing captain Zach Johnson faced huge scrutiny after his side’s 16-12 defeat at Marco Simone, and Mahan hinted that the grave errors made under the two-time major champion’s leadership may not have happened under Woods’ watch.

“Zach is an A+ human being in every way and everyone on the team would say that. But it’s very clear that the job can overwhelm you and it can just get away from you really quickly,” he said.

“There were too many cooks in the kitchen. There were so many assistants scrambling to figure out what to do. There has to be an alpha, but it felt like there were six alphas.

“If you just think it’s about those three days and that ‘we just got outplayed and outputted’ – give me a break, you don’t understand what’s happening. You don’t understand what’s going on.

“Europe were so well prepared and everyone on that team played that golf course multiple times. No-one in the US did. No one did anything, their preparation was really bad. Everything felt like an afterthought.”

Tiger Woods is a billionaire — here’s how he spends his money and lives his life

Tiger Woods keeps dropping hints that he will play.Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images

There’s nobody in golf quite like Tiger Woods. Even at 48 years old, with his best years behind him, he can do things that nobody else on the planet can dream of doing on a golf course.

Watch Tiger Woods’ incredible trick shot that defies physics

Riggs, of the Barstool Sports show Fore Play Pod, learned that lesson the hard way while filiming an unforgettable video with the golf legend.

Initially, the Fore Play hosts were hoping to get some tips from Tiger on their swings. After a couple lessons on hitting drivers off the tee, Woods decided to spice it up.

“We gotta do something different,” the 15-time major winner said to Riggs. “Since I maybe have fixed you, maybe I haven’t, we’re gonna do a long drive contest, you and me.”

“Tiger Woods outdrove me from his knees”

Despite the nerves of being put on the spot by perhaps the greatest golfer of all time, the Barstool man smacked his drive far down the fairway to set the distance to beat.

After evaluating what it would take to beat the long mark, Tiger teed up his ball and shocked everybody in the tee box: he dropped to his knees. From a kneeling position, he hit a booming drive and won the contest, sending the Fore Play hosts into a frenzy.

It was a party trick Tiger had to learn over the years while battling injuries. “I haven’t really been able to hit balls of my legs very often,” he joked afterward.

Riggs’ reaction reflected what it was like to watch prime Tiger Woods in that vintage red polo year after year doing things nobody thought was possible: “You’re a sicko. That was awesome.”

Afterward, he changed his Twitter/X bio to include the line: “Tiger Woods outdrove me from his knees.”