How NBA Bad Boy Vinnie Johnson Turned $5 Million In Career Earnings Into A $500 Million Fortune
https://www.benzinga.com/markets/24/08/40517773/how-nba-bad-boy-vinnie-johnson-turned-5-million-in-career-earnings-into-a-500-million-fortune?utm_campaign=partner_feed&utm_source=yahooFinance&utm_medium=partner_feed&utm_content=real_estate by Eric McConnell , Benzinga Staff Writer August 22, 2024 5:00 PM | 4 min read | NBA fans under 40 may not recognize Vinnie Johnson, but he was an integral member of the great Detroit Pistons teams of the 1980s. Known as the "Bad Boys," they won back-to-back championships, largely because of their notoriously physical play. Benzinga looks at how this high-scoring guard parlayed $5 million in career earnings into an estimated $500 million net worth in retirement. The Bad Boys Younger fans of today's NBA would probably not recognize the game if they watched a tape of an NBA basketball game from the late 1980s or early 1990s. Professional basketball was incredibly physical at that time, so much so that "noncontact sport...