Tip-Off Timer: Yao, China's Biggest Celeb, Earned $52 Million Last Year

by Tom Ziller

Filed under: Rockets

Tip-Off Timer counts down the days until the first game of the 2009-10 season. On Saturday, there are 52 days remaining.

American athletes find themselves high on annual top-earning celebrity lists -- Tiger Woods is a perennial top-five finisher on Forbes's Celebrity 100 list, and Michael Jordan had seen that ink for decades. Kobe Bryant and LeBron James made the magazine's top 100 celebrity earners list last year as well.

But the top-earning NBA player last year, according to Forbes, wasn't an American-born player. It was Rockets star Yao Ming, who is said to have earned $52 million in 2008.

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