In this weekend's WSJ, I read about the death of Junior Bridgeman, an ex-NBA player from the 70’s and 80’s, Junior Bridgeman. He was very good, a sixth man whose number was retired by the Milwaukee Bucks.
Back then they didn’t make the money they make now, yet, he’s one of only 3 NBA players (the other two being Le Bron James and Michael Jordan) to be a billionaire. And he made it all in retirement.
He retired in 1987 with about $750,000 and he used the money to buy 5 Wendy’s restaurants.
By 2016, he owned 500 Wendy's restaurants, 100 Chilis, plus Golden Corrals, etc. Then, he bought a Coca Cola bottling plant
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