5 most iconic athletes of the last 15 years
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Field Marshall Bradley
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The Fukin Prophecy
RIP Champ
The only American athletes to crack a worldwide list are Kobe and Bron...Nobody else matters outside the states except for Serena and Mayweather...
My list is based on global popularity of the sport the athlete competes in and his impact on said sport...
Ronaldo
Messi
Kobe
Bron
Federer
My list is based on global popularity of the sport the athlete competes in and his impact on said sport...
Ronaldo
Messi
Kobe
Bron
Federer
Goatpoacher
Superstar
The fukk does "iconic" mean anyway? You dudes are just listing athletes you worship?
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IllmaticDelta
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The Fukin Prophecy
RIP Champ
Who watches golf?Tiger Woods
TheyCallMeAzul
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Ehhh if we were talking best you'd have a point. Iverson's up there for sure as far as influenceIverson and Mayweather
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KANG LIFE
it's like dudes are ignoring every link I posted that included all international and USA stars GLOBAL APPEAL
They believe what they want to believe....
Yet you are the only one posting links while they say shyt Iike "I just don't see it"
Props for keeping these nikkas in reality
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KANG LIFE
Putting Ronaldo and Mayweather above LeBron, A-Rod, Jeter, Brady and Manning?
Besides LeBron nobody cares about those people on a worldwide level.
My cousin is from Australia and he didn't even know who Peyton Manning was.
NFL is an AMERICAN sports league and Ronaldo is a WORLDWIDE superstar.
IllmaticDelta
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troll better.
Lebron is just another tall black man in China...
Kobe in china is =
liked how this Kobe stan tried to post this above until I came with that ether
think again
Dude hasn't spoke on this yet
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IllmaticDelta
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The Fukin Prophecy
RIP Champ
Golf is not a global sport, nobody outside of rich white people and the Chinese gives a fukk about it...Tiger is global as fuk manDude was on his way to billionarre status
Tigers popularity has also been decimated since the scandal...Nobody talks about him anymore...
IllmaticDelta
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NFL/American Football has no global appeal
The top of the NBA endorsement food chain is led by LeBron James and Kobe Bryant. Both are global superstars who made $42 million and $34 million, respectively, last year from endorsement partners. James has been one of the NBA’s top endorsers since he was drafted by the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2003. His current partners include Nike, McDonald’s, Coca Cola, Samsung Electronics , Upper Deck, Audemars Piguet and Dunkin’ Donuts.
The four-time MVP is the NBA’s top endorser.
Five championships and 18 years of All-Star play transformed Bryant into the most popular player in China with a little help from his main backer, Nike. Bryant also has deals with Turkish Air, Lenovo, Hublot and Panini for merchandise.
The NBA’s top 10 endorsers pulled down $155 million last year by our count. It dwarfs the totals in baseball and football. MLB’ s 10 biggest endorsers earned less than $30 million off the field last year with only Derek Jeter and Ichiro Suzuki (all in Japan) making more than $3 million from sponsors and merchandise. The NFL’s top 10 made $55 million from endorsements, led by Peyton Manning at $12 million in 2013. The NHL lags even further behind with the 10 biggest stars making $15 million cumulatively.
“It’s gotta be the shoes,” Spike Lee told us 25 years ago, as his alter ego Mars Blackmon in a series of Nike commercials. And the gap between NBA players and others in team sports all starts with the shoes. The NBA’s biggest stars can command more than $10 million annually from Nike and Adidas . Nike represents almost half James’ off-court income, and James was the NBA’s leading shoe salesman in 2013 with $300 million in retail sales in the U.S. of his Nike signature shoes, according to research firm SportsOneSource. Rose signed a 13-year, $185 million contract with Adidas in 2012. A $1 million a year shoe deal is extremely rare for an NFL or MLB star. Basketball players move product unlike their counterparts in other sports.
Basketball players can also take advantage of the global nature of the sport. Bryant has made trips to China the past eight years for Nike and he is one of the brand’s main chips in its battle against Adidas in China. Bryant partnered with Turkish Airlines in 2010 and has been featured in commercials with global soccer star Lionel Messi. James’ Dunkin’ Donuts deal is for Asia only, and he entered into a new partnership with Chinese Internet services firm Tencent last year. These deals are not available to football and baseball players.
Source: Forbes
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kurtbadenhausen/2014/02/17/the-nbas-endorsement-all-stars-2014/
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Change is inevitable...
Iverson is a HOFer but I would not put him on a Top 5 list of iconic athletes in the past 15 years
Top 20 maybe