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Lebron James Once Gave Up A $10M Contract — And Got $90M Instead
BEAUTY UNLIMITED
MARIE
This week, the Beauty Unlimited honor is the lovely Marie. Marie can stir up a lot of excitement just by entering a room, and you really have to be special to be a part of her inner circle. Now to know Marie is to know that she means business, and she’s destined to be successful no matter what she does in the future. Congratula- tions to Marie as this week’s Beauty Unlimited feature.
LeBron James wants to make a documentary.
In a recent report by Hy- pebeast, it was revealed that the near-billionaire NBA player might be interested in recording a documentary on how he secured his legendary lifetime Nike deal.
Fans will recall that James’ net worth of nearly $1 billion didn’t just come from his time on the court. Rather, it’s thanks to a life-
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time of endorsement deals and wise investments in everything from a streaming
culinary platform to Lobos 1707 tequila.
But what they might not know is why his legendary deal with Nike is one for the books, and that’s what this ru- mored documentary is hoping to address.
“The Los Angeles Lakers superstar reposted a post from Bleacher Report that noted LeBron James’ Nike deal ‘has a lifetime deal worth $1B.’
NBA Announces 2021-22 Kia All-Defensive 1st And 2nd Teams
GIANNIS ANTETOKOUNMPO, RUDY GOBERT, MIKAL BRIDGES, JAREN WALTER JACKSON, JR., AND MARCUS SMART
Marcus Smart of the Boston Celtics and Mikal Bridges of the Phoenix Suns lead the 2021-22 Kia NBA All- Defensive 1st Team, the NBA announced.
Smart and Bridges comprise the two guards on the Kia NBA All-Defensive 1st Team. Smart, the 2021-22 Kia NBA Defensive Player of the Year, received 198 points (99 First Team votes) to earn his third selection to the NBA All-Defensive First Team. Bridges, who finished in sec- ond place for the Defensive Player of the Year Award in his third NBA season, re- ceived 193 points (95 First Team votes). This is Bridges’ first selection to the NBA All-Defensive Team (1st Team and 2nd Team).
Joining Smart and Bridges on the 2021-22 Kia NBA All-Defensive 1st Team are Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert (171 points; 76 First Team votes), Milwaukee Bucks forward Giannis An- tetokounmpo (156 points; 63 First Team votes) and Memphis Grizzlies forward
Jaren Jackson, Jr. (153 points; 55 First Team votes).
The 2021-22 Kia NBA All- Defensive 2nd Team consists of Miami Heat forward Bam Adebayo (152 points), Bucks guard Jrue Holiday (89
points), Philadelphia 76ers guard Matisse Thybulle (87 points), Celtics center Robert Williams, III (70 points) and Golden State Warriors forward Dray- mond Green (34 points).
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