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LeBron James and Stephen Curry’s Combined Net Worth Still Not Enough to Beat Kim Kardashian’s Wealth in 2022

Published 04/24/2022, 10:30 AM EDT

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LeBron James and Stephen Curry are two of the most elite basketball players ever. Their ability, their talent, and hard work are all to learn from. Where LeBron James always pops up with Michael Jordan in the GOAT debate. Stephen Curry is simply the best shooter in NBA history. LeBron James and Stephen Curry are two players who just perform at the highest level and very rarely do we see them fail.

Apart from being one of the greatest ever to do it, James is also one of the richest athletes in the world. He ranks 8th on the list of the top 10 richest athletes in the world. Although it must not matter much for Steph Curry, he is not far down the pecking order in the list of the richest athletes in the world.

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However, the fact that would surprise people is that the combined two NBA stars come nowhere near someone with the wealth of one of the Kardashian’s.

Kim Kardashian’s net worth compared with LeBron James and Stephen Curry

The comparison might sound bizarre because of the difference between the two worlds for the stars in question. However, it actually gives us a fair idea of how successful Kim Kadarshian has been over the years. 

Kim is the richest in her family with a massive net worth of 1.8 billion dollars. With her different brand endorsements, her career as a reality star and now an entrepreneur earns a lot of money from the family reality show, “Keeping Up With The Kardashians”.

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She also makes her wealth predominantly through her stakes in cosmetic brand KKW Beauty and US$500 million shapewear brand Skims. She is among the 2,886 billionaires in the world.

 

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Whereas LeBron’s net worth is around $500 million. His contracts and his deals with Nike is the major contributor to his wealth. Stephen Curry, on the other hand, has a net worth of around $160 million. Steph is the highest-paid player of the 2021-22 season. His contract ensures that he would earn around $46 million in the final year of his current deal, and the contract extension means that at the start of the 2022-23 season, he is worth a total of $215 million over four years.

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James is behind a few players based on his NBA salary, but when you factor in his off-court earnings, he stands alone. James will have earned $111.2 million when accounting for all of his financial interests, according to Forbes. This puts him ahead of Curry ($92.8 million).

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USA Today via Reuters

The combined total net worth of the two NBA stars amounts to around $660 million which is less than half of the $1.8 billion that Kim Kardashian stands at.

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Chaitanya Sharma

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Chaitanya is an NBA writer at EssentiallySports. He completed his engineering from SRM University. Having determined an interest in football and basketball, he was inclined towards having a job in the sports industry.
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Arunaditya Aima