Michael Jordan, Billion Dollar Man

CNBC’s Darren Rovell informs us that this year MJ’s Jordan brand has surpassed the $1 billion mark for the first time ever:

↵↵It’s hard to say how much Jordan has reaped personally, but 2009 will be remembered as the year MJ was inducted into the Hall of Fame and the year that his Nike brand, Jordan, topped $1 billion in annual revenue for the first time. It appropriately comes 23 years after Nike reached $1 billion in revenue for the first time.

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