“Nobody can really pay me what I’m worth,” Michael Jordan once said, and LeBron James, the modern-day icon, shares that same sentiment. Forbes 2025 ranked him as the sixth-richest athlete in the world, with earnings of about $581 million. Still, LeBron knows his value exceeds any figure placed on it, and he has never hesitated to demand exactly what he deserves. Even ex-Warriors star Gilbert Arenas recently took to his show to call out the fact that LeBron James has been underpaid throughout his career.

Gil Arenas said, “ Cleveland owes him more money. Miami owes him more money from 2018 to even last year. We owe him money. We get it. But, we’re not going to handicap ourselves because he’s owed another 400–500 million. But that’s—that’s usually all the greats. All the greats were un

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