Lucky 17: The World’s Highest Paid Black Athletes

June 10th, 2011 - By TheEditor

Tiger Woods should feel extremely blessed. What other athlete could lose several sponsors after a very public sexual scandal, have a near 20 month winless streak on the golf course, and have their annual earnings plummet $50 million over the past two years, yet still be ranked as the highest paid athlete in the world? Yup, it’s true, according to Forbes’ list of the world’s highest paid athletes. Athlete’s earning figures were derived from salaries, bonuses, prize money, appearance fees, licensing and endorsement income in the 12 months ending May 1st. Out of the list of 50, 17 black athletes made the cut for being some of the highest paid in their respective sport. Do any of these ranked surprise you?

Michael Redd

"Michael Redd"

$18.8 million

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  • http://www.facebook.com/dee.ruas Dee Ruas

    I think that it’s ok to enjoy what u earn but u should never forget where ur roots are and the people who help put and keep u there! It’s always good and proper to help and honor others in need.and those who have led to ur being in life!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Marc-Rivera/100001592009070 Marc Rivera

    Don’t know why Garnett is on the list. He’s a has been and a piece of S*** of a person! Also Rinaldinho, he’s from Brazil. Does that qualify him? If so then i have no problem with that. Garnett is a 1st class ***HOLE. He has so many fans in MN that were happy for him when he won a Championship and also made more than $200,000,000. Yet when asked he said he had NOTHING good to say about MN. That show’s you how much of a F***ING D*** he is. He is also a stick figure, tall enough to be a Center, but not strong enough. You suck the big one KG

  • Lifeskills

    People of Latin America and Caribbean heritage. Often use interchangeably with Hispanic. Latino seems preferable on the U.S. west coast. and Hispanic on the east coach. Some feel that Latino is more inclusive of these groups' African and indigenous heritage as well as their Spanish heritage. Others prefer Hispanic since Latino is masculine, and is not a clear "ethnic" designation (the word does not prefer to any specific country or location.
    For some the term more typically refers to people whose heritage are traced to countries where the English from Latin are spoken, e.g. Spain, France, Portugal, Italy, Romania.

  • http://www.memorize-and-recall.com/ guest

    Great article. When young people see this they are inspired to achieve.

  • new_black

    black women they are 90% married to white women so why should we care. their eyes and money is going some where else. where the white life style?

  • Rios

    Ronaldhino is AfroBrazilian. In Brazil black people do not describe themselves as Latino we are Brazilian and Lusophone speakers. Only Spanish speakers are called Hispanic that is what Brazilian describe them as being. Spain has nothing to do with Brazil we are not the same as the Dominicans who think they are Spanish! LOL!!!

  • Kyt Gardner

    Tiger was paid OVER 62million dollars, lost his number 1 status as a golfer, but maintained his highest paid athlete status. Hey life ain't all bad for the man that has his own tiger by the tail!

  • Chris

    First of all Tiger disowned his blacknesss once
    And Ronaldhino maybe not black , I'm from the southern carribean and I know most of the people in Latin and Spanish speaking Carribean dont want to be called black even if they are not white they want to called their ethenicity example dominican people they said black people are haitians not we

    • Deity

      Chris, take a look at the world map. Brazil is NOT in the Carribean. More like South America..

      • Chris

        seems like some people dont understand I said latin and spanish speaking carribean , I know where brazil is im from southern carribean .

        @ Aso you dont know anything about black History black history is not about american history.

        Yes i have seen black in latin america and I have been to alot of latin america

        and for you to know did you know that in Hispanola they killed black people just because they were dark skin , you can ask around maybe for you they are black but they dont want to feel and be called black go to santo domingo and talk spanish with them and see why they have problem with haiti., go to venezuela , go to curacao , go to colombia, its not the white people that only dont like black its the lightskin and white hispanics too , even tego calderon said once that they are holding darkskin brothers down trying to succeed in reggeaton back then

  • isa

    #11 Ronaldinho is not Black…. he is Brazilian!

    • Ronin Noroshi

      ………Really? Oh I get it. You're joking.

    • Mariposa_Sedosa

      Wow, really? Still don't know the difference between skin color, race, nationality or ethnicity? Brazilian is his nationality. His race is black. Brazil has the highest number of Blacks outside of Africa. Your homework assignment is to learn about the black diaspora and to Google Pele.

    • Arturo Rivera

      I am Brazilian as well and I look just like him but more mixed and I know I am African Latino is not a race it is a culture. Brazilians are overwhelmingly African our culture should have taught you that much. Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, and Cuba are just some of the places you can find Afro-Latino's. You need to learn that there are Africano's all over the globe in France, Italy they are everywhere, stop trying to claim people who are inherently black because Latin American culture is also influenced by Africa from our traditions to our percussions these things come from Africa and Haitians are Latinos to so for people that say they are not you really need to study Latin American history.

  • David

    What is newsworthy about being ranked in the lucky 17. I'll bet Tiger didn't feel so lucky or loved once he was exposed the the way he was spending his money. No black woman even made the cut in his black book and yet what are black folks suppose to feel, some kind of pride in this statistic. You're making money by writing some worthless information like its something we need to or want to know, who's making some kind of difference in life or lives other than chasing materialism and skirts.