From the Court to the Bank: Athletes and Their Respective Net Worth

One of the patterns that you will quickly start to see as you read over this list is that while athletes from many different sports have excellent net worths, the athletes that are the richest tend to come from certain very popular American sports, namely basketball, and football.

Take Vinnie Johnson, for example; this basketball player, who helped win the NBA championships for the Detroit Pistons in 1989 and 1990, has a net worth of $400 million USD. At least some of that, though, may have come from his Piston Automotive venture.