{"id":10985,"date":"2014-05-25T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2014-05-25T13:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=10985"},"modified":"2014-05-25T09:33:43","modified_gmt":"2014-05-25T13:33:43","slug":"the-economics-of-michael-jordan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/the-economics-of-michael-jordan\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of Michael Jordan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/052514_0639_TheEconomic1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Michael Jordan made over $90 million last year. Kurt Badenhausen looked at how he did it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When Nike released the latest edition of its Air Jordan sneakers sales were worth $35 million on the first day.<\/li>\n<li>In contrast Adidas sold $40 million worth of its signature shoes over the entirety of 2013.<\/li>\n<li>One of every two basketball shoes sold in 2013 carried Jordan&#8217;s brand.<\/li>\n<li>Despite it being a decade since Jordan played in an NBA game he was responsible for $2.25 billion in US retail basketball sales in 2013.<\/li>\n<li>There were references to Michael Jordan in 50 new songs in 2013. The next athlete on the list was Kobe Bryant with 18 mentions.<\/li>\n<li>And things are only looking up for the former athlete. His ownership of the NBA&#8217;s Charlotte Bobcats could soon turn him into a billionaire.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/kurtbadenhausen\/2014\/02\/27\/how-michael-jordan-made-90-million-in-2013\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/kurtbadenhausen\/2014\/02\/27\/how-michael-jordan-made-90-million-in-2013\/\">Forbes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Jordan made over $90 million last year. Kurt Badenhausen looked at how he did it: When Nike released the latest edition of its Air Jordan sneakers sales were worth $35 million on the first day. In contrast Adidas sold $40 million worth of its signature shoes over the entirety of 2013. One of every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/052514_0639_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10985"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10988,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10985\/revisions\/10988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}