There is no I in ‘team’, as countless sports coaches have reminded athletes over the years. On the other hand, there also isn’t an I in ‘very large sums of cash’, but it doesn’t seem to have prevented the world’s leading sports stars from accumulating precisely that.
According to the annual Forbes World’s Highest Paid Athletes list, the top 50 sports people made a combined total of nearly $3.9 billion last year, both on and off the field, ranging from soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo’s $260 million haul, to the more modest $45.2 million for basketball star Devin Booker.
