stephen curry was the highest paid athlete in the nba 2017.
stephen curry was the highest paid athlete in the nba 2017.
who is the highest paid athlete in the nba 2017?
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walton started a sports management company, walton sports management group, in 2009, becoming one of the youngest ceos of a basketball agency at the time. andrew goudelock, the 46th overall pick in the 2011 nba draft was walton's first client. walton has represented basketball players including nba and international players. most notably, he is known as being the agent for kent bazemore. bazemore came into the nba as an undrafted rookie, playing with the oklahoma city thunder and golden state warriors summer league teams, eventually signing with the golden state warriors. on july 1, 2016, walton negotiated a $70 million contract over 4 years for bazemore. the contract made bazemore the highest paid undrafted player in the history of the nba. in march 2016, espn writer ethan sherwood strauss published a story about how under armour successfully signed away stephen curry from nike in the 2013 offseason, and revealed that bazemore played a significant role in the signing.
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"forbes" also listed pacquiao as the world's equal sixth highest paid athlete, with a total of $40 million or ₱2 billion pesos (₱2,000,000,000.00) from the second half of 2008 to the first half of 2009. tied with him on the sixth spot was nba player lebron james and golfer phil mickelson. pacquiao was again included in "forbes"' list of highest paid athletes from the second half of 2009 to the first half of 2010; he was ranked eighth with an income of $42 million. pacquiao also won the 2009 espy awards for the best fighter category, beating fellow boxer shane mosley and brazilian mixed martial arts fighters lyoto machida and anderson silva. espn magazine reported that pacquiao was one of the two top earning athletes for 2010, alongside american major league baseball player alex rodriguez. according to the magazine's annual salary report of athletes, pacquiao earned $32 million (approximately php 1.38 billion) for his two 2010 boxing matches against clottey and margarito.
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