18. LeBron James: $65 million
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The greatest basketball player of his generation had quite the banner year even though he did not hoist any National Basketball Association hardware this time around. LeBron James‘ emotional return home to northeast Ohio and to the Cleveland Cavaliers was one of the more positive sports stories of 2014, and it served as a financial injection of life into a region that badly needed the boost. The NBA salary cap is set to rise over the next couple of years, and thus James and other top-tier basketball players are only going to shoot up such lists in the foreseeable future.
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