American LeBron James is the first active player in NBA history to be a billionaire.

Billionaire. American basketball star LeBron James has become the first active NBA player to amass a fortune of more than a billion dollars. This was announced this Thursday by Forbes magazine, which compiles the lists of the richest in the world.

LeBron James, 37, is considered one of the best basketball players in history, with four NBA championship rings, four MVP awards (Most Valuable Player) and 18 selections for the All-Star Game.

Second all-time leading scorer in the league, James has maximized his career and business to more than $1.2 billion in pre-tax profits, Forbes calculated.

In the NBA, James has received salaries of more than 385 million dollars from the three teams to which he has belonged in his 19 active years: Cleveland Cavaliers, Miami Heat and Lakers.

Off the field, the player has obtained more than 900 million in income from sponsorships, investments and other projects, such as his participation last year as an actor in the movie “Space Jam: A new era.”

It should be noted that he is the second professional basketball player to enter the list after Michael Jordan, who achieved it ten years after retiring from the NBA, when he invested in the Charlotte Hornets team.

LeBron had a turbulent final season with the Lakers, missing the playoffs for the fourth time in his career. Even so, last May he appeared in second position on Forbes’ annual list of highest-paid athletes with 121.2 million dollars, only surpassed by Argentine soccer player Lionel Messi (130 million).