LeBron James is undoubtedly one of the most famous and influential athletes in the world of sports. The current Los Angeles Lakers player has managed to rise to the top of the sports world, attracting countless sponsors as well as huge contracts with the NBA franchises he has played for. The portal Sportico has compiled a ranking of the 50 athletes who have earned the most over the course of their careers and estimates that LeBron James has earned $1.76 billion over the course of his career, placing him fifth among the athletes who have earned the most in the history of sports. “The Chosen One is the only active athlete in the top 5, along with Cristiano Ronaldo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The portal Sportico has ranked the athletes who have earned the most in their careers in the history of sports: LeBron James in fifth place, the figure is huge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":373048,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-376971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"yoast_head":"\n