{"id":17784,"date":"2014-10-08T18:10:13","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T18:10:13","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-10-09T01:10:08","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T01:10:08","slug":"LeBron-James-surpasses-Tiger-Woods-as-world-s-best-sports-brand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=17784","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James surpasses Tiger Woods as world&#8217;s best sports brand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes released its annual &#8220;Fab 40: The World&#8217;s Most Valuable Sports Brands,&#8221; and for the first time LeBron ranks as the top individual brand in all of sports. His personal brand&#8217;s estimated off-the-court value of $37 million this year narrowly surpasses that of Tiger Woods, who held the No. 1 ranking since 2007.<\/p>\n<p>According to the magazine, LeBron made $53 million in endorsement earnings last year while the NBA&#8217;s other top-10 off-the-court earners took home an average of $16 million, and therefore the four-time MVP&#8217;s moniker is worth roughly $37 million on its own merit \u2014 up $10 million from last year, when he won the second of back-to-back titles for the Miami Heat. Tiger&#8217;s brand fell $10 million from $46 million in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, Kobe Bryant&#8217;s estimated $15 million personal brand \u2014 down $4 million from last year \u2014 is the only other basketball name to crack the magazine&#8217;s top 10, coming in at No. 8. Likewise, the Los Angeles Lakers are the lone NBA franchise to rank among the top-10 team brands, and they&#8217;re 10th.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tiger has been playing awful since the whole cheating scandal! Guess the saying, &#8220;Happy Wife, Happy Life&#8221; rings true!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ca.sports.yahoo.com\/blogs\/nba-ball-dont-lie\/lebron-james-surpasses-tiger-woods-as-world-s-top-personal-sports-brand-210543179.html\">Source Yahoo.com<\/a><br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes released its annual &#8220;Fab 40: The World&#8217;s Most Valuable Sports Brands,&#8221; and for the first time LeBron ranks as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","2048x2048":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-highlighted-post":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-small":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x90.jpg","colormag-featured-image":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-default-news":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","colormag-featured-image-large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-block-extra-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-small-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-medium-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg"},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"Admin","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/53e6cdc30765aade0129f85e5aeb50124b1d3f5bb9a70373be31e4eb328371e0?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"1","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"Forbes released its annual &#8220;Fab 40: The World&#8217;s Most Valuable Sports Brands,&#8221; and for the first time LeBron ranks as","magazineBlocksPostCategories":["News"],"magazineBlocksPostViewCount":149,"magazineBlocksPostReadTime":1,"magazine_blocks_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg",113,170,false],"medium":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg",113,170,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg",113,150,true]},"magazine_blocks_author":{"display_name":"Admin","author_link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?author=1"},"magazine_blocks_comment":1,"magazine_blocks_author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/53e6cdc30765aade0129f85e5aeb50124b1d3f5bb9a70373be31e4eb328371e0?s=96&d=mm&r=g","magazine_blocks_category":"<a href=\"#\" class=\"category-link category-link-1\">News<\/a>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}