Sue Bird is one of the most prominent female basketball players in the United States of America and as a result, she has been able to amass plenty of money during her career.
She is a well-known point guard who was picked first overall by the Seattle Storm in the WNBA draft in 2002. Since then, she has become one of the best players in WBNA history.
She has had an extremely decorated career thanks to her immense level of skill and the quality of the players she has been able to call her teammates.
Bird has won four titles, including four gold medals at the Olympics, four FIBA World Cups, and two NCAA titles.
She is one of only eleven players in WBNA history to have won all of these awards. As of 2021, Bird was the only player in the Women's National Basketball Association to win titles in three different decades.
What is Sue Bird's net worth?
Thanks to all these honours, it is believed that Bird's net worth in 2022 is an impressive eight million dollars.
She has had a multicultural upbringing as she was born in New York in 1980 but also holds Israeli citizenship due to her father who is a Rusyn Jew.
While in high school, she participated in track and field, tennis, soccer, and basketball. When she was in the sixth grade, she started participating in AAU basketball.
She was only 11 years old when a security guard approached her as she was playing because he seemed somewhat interested in her.
She signed a one-year contract with Seattle Storm which gave her an annual salary of $221,450. When all of her other sources of income are taken into account, Bird likely earns around $500,000 a year.
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