NBA: VICTOR WEMBANYAMA SOON TO BE A BILLIONAIRE?

Victor Wembanyama is having a good season individually with Spurs. [SUSA / Icon Sport]

Victor Wembanyama, No. 1 in the last NBA draft and San Antonio Spurs player, could become a billionaire in the years to come, depending on his contracts.

During the NBA draft , the San Antonio Spurs offered him a record contract of more than $55 million (€50.2 million) over four years. But that would be nothing compared to what the twenty-year-old Frenchman could earn in a few years, according to the Bloomberg agency.

According to her, the former Boulogne-Levallois player should eventually become the first basketball player to accumulate more than a billion dollars in salaries during his career on the floors of the American league.

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In 2027, when his contract is renewed, “Wemby” could claim a five-year extension worth $316 million (288 million euros). Then will follow the “supermax” contracts. The first of approximately 529 million dollars (483 million euros), still over five years. The second for an amount of 760 million dollars over five years (694 million euros). Enough to exceed a billion dollars.

Athletes have already reached this amount, such as Cristiano Ronaldo (football) or Shohei Ohtani (baseball), and even Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson (basketball).

In any case, if this happens to the Frenchman, he would easily beat LeBron James, who has accumulated some 479 million dollars in salaries (437 million euros). “It’s not something I’ve thought about before,” Victor Wembanyama told Bloomberg. It broadens the range of possibilities and the impact I can have.”