Larry Bird is also known as L. Joe Bird, Larry the Legend, The Hick from French Lick, The Great White Hope and Kodak. L. J. Bird is an American basketball player, athlete and also a great basketball coach who has been able to build up net worth as amazingly huge as $45 million. Larry is known for his basketball playing with the Boston Celtics, and this is also one of the main reasons why nowadays the estimated net worth of The Hick from French Lick is so huge. For example, for only the 1991-1992 season he was paid more that 7 million dollars.
Larry Bird Net Worth $45 Million
Larry Joe Bird was born on December 7, 1956, in West Barden, Indiana. Joe Bird was raised together with his five brothers in a poor family, as their mother was divorced during Larry’s school years. The childhood of Bird definitely can’t be called happy – he did not only try to play basketball in order to escape from the problems at home, but also tried to commit suicide. At that time Larry was playing for his school, Springs Valley High School, and already at the young age had shown great results. Actually he even became a star in school as the person who was able to hit a long-time school record. Later, when he studied at Indiana State University, Larry continued to play basketball, but at that time his Mother did not know he was planning to associate his future life with basketball and earn such a great net worth.
The big career of Bird started in 1978, when he was invited to play for the Boston Celtics in the NBA. That was a great success for Larry’s net worth as he was finally able to earn a huge sum of money by himself. Later no one could doubt about how rich is Larry Joe Bird, as he was able to become one of several players who were NBA All-Stars. Of course, about that time the net worth estimated by Larry Joe Bird increased so amazingly high, that he could easily be considered as one of the richest athletes of our time, although actually the biggest success in the financial side of Larry’s career was in year 1992, when he was paid 7 million dollars.
Talking about all the earnings Larry made as a basketball star, we should mention that for playing from 1985 until 1993 Bird’s net worth increased to $16,270,000. And this is the biggest source of money which is used to estimate Bird’s net worth.
Talking about Larry’s career above the sports, he is also known as an actor who has appeared in several movies. The first time Larry was seen on TV was in 1994, when “Blue Chips” directed by William Friedkin was released. Later Joe Bird also appeared in the “Celtic Pride” and “Space Jam”. But of course, all these appearances could not even stand near this great career which Larry has made in basketball. So now you know all about Larry Bird’s net worth.
