Michael Jordan celebrated his half-century this last Sunday. And $80 million more in the bank. After his retirement 10 years ago, Forbes reports that the Jordan brand (a division of Nike) still scores him $80 million a year, along with his corporate partners Gatorade, Hanes, Upper Deck and the Bobcats, to name a few.
In many ways, Jordan’s squeaky-clean corporate career is on par with his freakish athletic abilities, and with a seemingly-unending number of Nike athletes apparently willing to throw themselves – and their corporate sponsors – under the scandal bus, Good Guy Michael has never been a more valuable commodity.
[Source : Forbes]
