1Michael Jordan
Michael Jordan once tipped a waitress a $5 chip for bringing him a drink. Wayne Gretzky stopped the waitress, removed the $5 chip, grabbed one of the many $100 chips on Jordan’s side of the table, and gave it to her. Then he said, "That's how we tip in Las Vegas, Michael."
2Lebron James
Lebron James rejected a $10 million offer from Reebok when he was just 18. When asked why he said that Nike or Adidas might offer him a bit more. Less than a year later, he accepted a $90 million offer from Nike.
3Shawn Bradley
A former NBA player and devout Mormon, Shawn Bradley, was once fined $10,000 for not going to a mandatory team meeting at a strip club.
4Tim Duncan
Tim Duncan grew up in the US Virgin Islands where he was gearing up for the 1992 Olympics as a competitive swimmer until Hurricane Hugo destroyed the island's only Olympic-sized pool. The only alternative was to swim in the ocean, and Duncan was afraid of sharks, so he turned to basketball.
5LeBron James
In 2018, LeBron James opened “Promise School” in Akron, Ohio where at-risk students have 8 hour days, a longer school year, and receive free meals, bikes, and tuition.
6Michael Jordan
NBA player Michael Jordan took home economics in high school to learn how to cook because he was worried that his big ears would make it hard to find a woman who would want to marry him.
7Lebron James
Lebron James was so hated back in 2012 that even a captured Al-Qaeda member wrote letters expressing his disgust at his decision to go to the Miami Heat. He told his lawyer that “LeBron James is a very bad man and should apologize to the city of Cleveland.”
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8Jordan and Kobe
Michael Jordan says Kobe Bryant is the only player to ever have approached him in work ethic, waking up at 4:30 in the morning to practice before his required practice with his team.
9Kevin Durant
Kevin Durant used to wear jersey No. 35 in honor of his first basketball coach, Charles Craig, who was murdered at the age of 35 in a gang-related case of mistaken identity.
10Shaquille O'Neal
Shaquille O'Neal only made one three-point shot during his entire career.
