{"id":97923,"date":"2024-05-17T01:15:41","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T01:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/17\/forbes-list-of-the-worlds-highest-paid-athletes-2024\/"},"modified":"2024-05-17T01:15:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T01:15:41","slug":"forbes-list-of-the-worlds-highest-paid-athletes-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/17\/forbes-list-of-the-worlds-highest-paid-athletes-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Forbes&#8217; list of the World&#8217;s Highest-Paid Athletes 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">With $135 million in earnings, here&#8217;s where Lionel Messi landed on Forbes&#8217; list of the World&#8217;s Highest-Paid Athletes 2024: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iYSOwuKqp0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/iYSOwuKqp0<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MK6tomfCmx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/MK6tomfCmx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Forbes (@Forbes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Forbes\/status\/1791134763937386641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">May 16, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Forbes\/status\/1791134763937386641\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Saudi money is all over the list<\/p>\n<p>The Golf money is coming from LIV which is a Saudi Investment Fund<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo, Neymar*, and Benzema play in Saudi Pro League teams<\/p>\n<p>*dude hasn&#8217;t played in a year and still gets paid<\/p>\n<p>Messi gets Saudi tourism ambassador money. <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"cutid1\"\/><br \/>#1 \u2022 $260M Cristiano Ronaldo (Soccer)<\/p>\n<p>#2 \u2022 $218M Jon Rahm (Golf)<\/p>\n<p>#3 \u2022 $135M Lionel Messi  (Soccer)<\/p>\n<p>#4 \u2022 $128.2 LeBron James (Basketball)<\/p>\n<p>#5 \u2022 $111 Giannis Antetokounmpo (Basketball)<\/p>\n<p>#6 \u2022 $110 Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 (Soccer)<\/p>\n<p>#7 \u2022 $108 Neymar (Soccer)<\/p>\n<p>#8 \u2022 $106M Karim Benzema (Soccer)<\/p>\n<p>#9 \u2022 $102M Stephen Curry (Basketball)<\/p>\n<p>#10 \u2022 $100.5M Lamar Jackson (Football)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/128415297.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With $135 million in earnings, here&#8217;s where Lionel Messi landed on Forbes&#8217; list of the World&#8217;s Highest-Paid Athletes 2024: https:\/\/t.co\/iYSOwuKqp0 pic.twitter.com\/MK6tomfCmx \u2014 Forbes (@Forbes) May 16, 2024 source Saudi money is all over the list The Golf money is coming from LIV which is a Saudi Investment Fund Ronaldo, Neymar*, and Benzema play in Saudi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-97923","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}