How Michael Jordan Made $300 Million in 2024 Michael Jordan hung up his high tops for good more than two decades ago but still earns more than any athlete on the planet. Illustration by Lorenzo Gordon

His 2024 haul pushed his career earnings to $3 billion, or $4.15 billion when adjusted for inflation and highest all-time among athletes before accounting for taxes, expenses and investment gains.

Terms of Jordan’s Nike contract have never been revealed. The club paid him $92 million over 14 years—he also made $2 million during his final two seasons in Washington—but it was almost always Nike that represented the biggest line item on his annual tax return.

After three years at UNC, Jordan was the third pick in the 1984 NBA Draft and was paid $555,000 by the Bulls during his rookie season. Read more about it here.

Two-way contracts in college basketball? One mid-major coach’s bold idea to adapt to transfer portal chaos By Matt Norlander Apr 23, 2025 at 3:15 pm ET • 5 min read Getty Images

The transfer portal deadline hit at midnight ET Wednesday, ending the liveliest and most congested transfer cycle in college basketball history. In an effort to be creative in the ever-changing landscape of college sports, Killings is trying to improve his team while also using a moneyball-type approach to bring a little more stability to power-conference programs, in addition to his own.

Developing players to return to power-conference teams

Here’s the idea: Many high-major schools wind up with players that, for whatever reasons, aren’t prepared to play at that level when they get there. (Sometimes, the player and the coaching staff only realize this after the fact.) Instead of sticking around for four years to develop, most of these players now leave after one season if things don’t go the way they hoped. 

The self-aware guys who bounce typically transfer down to a level much more suited to their skill sets. Well, instead of doing what many other coaches have been doing — contributing to therapy-session text chains daily or making grousing phone calls to fellow coaches for the past month — Albany coach Dwayne Killings has been brainstorming one potential workaround: two-way contracts.

Well, sort of. 

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Similar to two-way deals in the pros, with players fluctuating between G League and NBA rosters, Killings wants to turn his America East program into a developmental system for high-majors. Read more about it here.

Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen: The Freestylist

Magnus Carlsen strolls across the parking lot of Millerntor Stadium in Hamburg as the journalists scurry into hiding. No questions are allowed.

DER SPIEGEL 16/2025

The article you are reading originally appeared in German in issue 16/2025 (April 12th, 2025) of DER SPIEGEL.

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This Monday in mid-January marks the first time that the world’s top-ranked player has competed for FC St. As if the superstar of the chess world were a skittish doe that would take flight at the slightest rustle.

Carlsen has been promised that no journalists will be on site, say the organizers of a meet and greet. Read more about it here.

What We Lose When We’re Priced Out of Our Hobbies Family

What We Lose When We’re Priced Out of Our Hobbies

For a lot of people, it’s getting too expensive to knit or fish.

By Tyler Austin HarperIllustration by Akshita Chandra / The Atlantic. I was 12 years old, at a local gun club, where my mother had driven me so I could try my hand at “sporting clays.” Meant to simulate hunting, the sport takes place in forests and fields and involves walking from one station to another to shoot—imagine golf, but with guns. Listen to more stories on the Noa app.

The first time I shot a clay pigeon, it disappeared. Read more about it here.

Gumtree Golf & Nature Club Gives Golfers A Reason To Appreciate Nature BusinessSportsMoney

Gumtree Golf & Nature Club Gives Golfers A Reason To Appreciate Nature

ByMichael LoRé,

Contributor.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Beginning his career as a designer and photographer in the surf industry, Jurkschat witnessed firsthand the appreciation and respect surfers have for the waters that not only surround their country, but cover more than 70% of the planet’s surface.

If surfers didn’t spearhead the support of the oceans, rivers and waterways, their industry, passion and community would suffer. As his career as an art director and creative director took him to new heights—and continents—Jurkschat never forgot the appreciation and respect surfers had for their environment.

Eventually needing a respite from the corporate rat race in New York City, Jurkschat sought out a similar connection to Mother Nature among the Concrete Jungle’s sidewalks and skyscrapers. Read more about it here.

My Guilty Pleasure: The Peace of a Long Commute Arts & Culture / March/April 2025

My Guilty Pleasure: The Peace of a Long Commute

There are no dishes to put away, no tiny toddler socks to match, and no family calendar to organize

April 18, 2025April 18, 2025 – by Carine AbouseifCarine AbouseifIllustration by Melanie Lambrick, Updated 9:01, Apr. 18, 2025 | Published 6:30, Apr. 18, 2025

The moment I step onto the platform, I take the deepest breath I’ve taken all morning. But on these mornings, as I choose the perfect seat (window, facing forward), flatten my bag in my lap, and slip my headphones on, I am almost giddy: a whole hour with nothing to do.

Perhaps it’s the eldest-daughter-working-­mother of it all, but here, there are no dishes to put away, no tiny toddler socks to match, and no family calendar to organize. Once I step on board the subway, I’m ready to settle in.

At parties and dinners, I complain to anyone who will listen about this injustice (“more than an hour!”). Read more about it here.

Inside the Cultish Dreamworld of Augusta National

Inside the Cultish Dreamworld of Augusta National

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Beneath Augusta National, the world’s most exclusive golf club and most venerated domain of cultivated grass, there is a vast network of pipes and mechanical blowers, which help drain and ventilate the putting greens. The SubAir System was developed in the nineteen-nineties, by the aptly named course superintendent Marsh Benson, in an effort to mitigate the effects of nature on this precious facsimile of it. When the system’s fans blow one way, they provide air to the densely seeded bent grass of the putting surface. Read more about it here.

Can Cowboy Fever Make Bull Riding the Next UFC?

Can Cowboy Fever Make Bull Riding the Next UFC?

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The professional Bull Riders have been coming to New York’s Madison Square Garden since 2007, but, in the first week of this year, they arrive in a city that is saturated with cowboy fever at every level. Post Malone went country; Shaboozey spent a record-tying 19 weeks at the top of the charts; Yellowstone, America’s most watched show for stretches of its five seasons, spawned three spin-offs. It started with fashion and design a few years ago: Western influences were on mood boards and runways, and people showed up to their office jobs in cowboy boots. Read more about it here.

An Insider’s Guide to Augusta

My name is Ian Gilley, I run the brand Sugarloaf Social Club and I have attended 10 Masters Tournaments, going on my eleventh this year. So, if you are one of the lucky few headed down there, I'd like to share a few stream-of-consciousness insights and general tips—for inside and outside the gates—that I have gleaned over the years.

Arrive early, stay late and certainly get there before the gates open. I know, I know—that is a preposterous amount of Tournaments for any one person, and a true blessing that I do not carry lightly. Read more about it here.

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