Which sport personality made a fortune from a completely different business rather than from the sport which they were related to?
The third richest NBA player ever is a guy that you have never heard of.
He averaged 13 points per game, never made an All-Star team or won a championship and his highest salary was $300,000.
So how exactly is Junior Bridgeman worth $600 million?
Well he owes a ton of credit to Wendy Thomas. You have seen her red hair and freckles before. She’s the namesake of one of the largest franchises in the world.
Junior realized he needed to prepare for a life after basketball, he wasn’t even a starter, meaning endorsements were non-existent.
While most players spend the off season relaxing, junior was absolutely grinding, he studied law. When he wasn’t studying, he was working at a local Wendy’s in Milwaukee. That’s right, an NBA 6th man taking drive-through orders.
By the time he retired, he already owned 3 franchises, soon this became 160, also 120 Chili’s restaurants.
At one point Junior owned more Wendy’s than any person in the world.
In 2016, he cashed in and sold all his franchises and bought Heartland Coca Cola in St. Louis and also in Kansas City, Missouri and a couple of more warehouses.
He’s not an NBA player, he’s just a businessman who played NBA when he was young.
My man said “this NBA shit is just a side hustle”🤑