Jamal Mashburn is a popular basketball player, who is now retired. Jamal is mostly famous for playing in such teams as the “Dallas Mavericks”, “Miami Heat” and “Charlotte/ New Orleans Hornets”. During his career, Jamal won the NBA All-Star award, SEC Player of the Year award, NBA All-Rookie First Team award and others. His scoring average was 19.1 and it is one of the best results. If you wonder how rich is Jamal Mashburn, it has been estimated that Jamal’s net worth is $45 million. Jamal does not play basketball anymore, but he is now involved in several businesses and his net worth continues to grow.
Jamal Mashburn Net Worth $45 Million
Jamal Mashburn was born in 1972 in New York. When Jamal finished Cardinal Hayes High School he studied at the University of Kentucky. There he played basketball and was one of the best scorers in his team. The team even became one of the four teams to play in the finals of the NCAA Tournament. In 1993 Jamal became a part of the “Dallas Mavericks” and started his career in the NBA. This made Jamal Mashburn’s net worth a lot higher. Jamal’s good game allowed the “Dallas Mavericks” to win more games, and when the “Dallas Mavericks” played the “Chicago Bulls”, Jamal scored 50 points and became one of the youngest players to do that.
In 1997 Jamal was traded to the “Miami Heat”. Mashburn showed that he could really play, and “Miami Heat” was able to win more games. This also had an effect on the growth of Jamal’s net worth. Despite the fact that Mashburn was a very good player he was not able to avoid some injuries during the seasons and had to miss quite a lot of games. In 2000 Jamal was traded again to play for another team, this time it was the “Charlotte Hornets”. Jamal again showed his best form and became even more famous and acclaimed. In 2004 Jamal had some problems with his knee and was not able to play as many games as he might have wanted. He even had to have a difficult operation and unfortunately he was not able to recover very quickl, and so he decided to retire from basketball in 2006.
As mentioned before, although Mashburn does not play basketball anymore, he still has other activities that make Jamal Mashburn’s net worth higher. He is the owner of such franchises as Papa John’s franchises and Outback Steakhouse franchises. What is more, Jamal is a part of Ol Memorial Stable, where he works together with Chris T. Sullivan and Rick Patino. This also makes Mashburn’s net worth grow. Lastly, it can be said that Jamal Mashburn was a very successful basketball player and made a huge effort in order to become a better player. Despite this fact, different injuries did not allow him to become even more popular and known. It is good that even without playing basketball Jamal has a lot of activities to continue in business.
