Junior Bridgeman RIP

[superjohn]

He was really successful on the court and unbelievably successful in his business career.

Junior Bridgeman, billionaire businessman and 12-year NBA veteran, dead at 71

Junior Bridgeman, a former college basketball star who went on to have a lengthy career in the NBA and became a billionaire businessman following his playing days, died on Tuesday.

nypost.com

 

[FfldCntyFan]

Very sad news. I remember him when he played for Denny Crum in Louisville (before the school became a cesspool). He was pretty solid with the Bucks for a while. May he rest in peace.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Net worth around $3.7B.

 

[HooperScooper]

Net worth around $3.7B.

The article posted above says, "He had an estimated net worth of $1.4 billion, according to Forbes."

 

[SCNCHuskie]

The article posted above says, "He had an estimated net worth of $1.4 billion, according to Forbes."

He is a great story. I have shared his life example with my students for years. He made very little money as a professional basketball player. However, during the off-season, he went to work at a Wendy’s and learned the business. He ended up buying that Wendy’s, and then hundreds more. Eventually, he became a big-time businessman, owning BET and many other ventures. Quite an incredible story. Sad to hear of his passing.

 

[uconnbill]

Very good basketball player. Sending prayers to his family on his passing

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

Very sad news. I remember him when he played for Denny Crum in Louisville (before the school became a cesspool). He was pretty solid with the Bucks for a while. May he rest in peace.

Junior Bridgeman was a member of the University of Louisville's Board of Trustees. Your extension of respect toward his life's accomplishments includes a rather deep & gratuitous swipe toward an academic institution that little resembles what it was 50 years ago. The same could easily be said of UConn.

It could also be said that UConn has risen further and started ahead of Louisville. And it could be argued that Louisville's academic profile remains the bottom dweller within the athletic conference that Louisville gained admission to and UConn did not. Nevertheless, the present day U of L is a comprehensive R1 research university, with a full compliment of academic and professional programs across the span of arts, sciences, and techology. It is not a serious rival to its highest level conference mates, which include some of the most highly respected public & private schools. UConn would comfortably fit in the middle of the pack of the ACC, in contrast to its position above its Big East mates except for Georgetown.

Nonetheless, you'd be hard-pressed to to flesh out a half-century timeline that you so casually calculated to register as a "cesspool" that would reflect more favorably on such a characterization than it being the product of cavalier prejudice and unflattering ignorance.

If you want to convey respect toward the memory of Junior Bridgeman, you might as well refresh your knowledge base.

 

[Chin Diesel]

The article posted above says, "He had an estimated net worth of $1.4 billion, according to Forbes."

He is a great story. I have shared his life example with my students for years. He made very little money as a professional basketball player. However, during the off-season, he went to work at a Wendy’s and learned the business. He ended up buying that Wendy’s, and then hundreds more. Eventually, he became a big-time businessman, owning BET and many other ventures. Quite an incredible story. Sad to hear of his passing.

A precursor for Magic, Shaq and others by getting in to franchising. And also realized the power of media with ownership stakes in Jet and Esquire. Funny enough, and not worth spending much time on, doing a Google search I can see the Forbes reference of $1.4B. I also see a reference to Forbes in Sep 2024 with $600M and an article citing Forbes with a new worth of $3.7B. I'll leave it at he was "well off".

 

[superjohn]

He is a great story. I have shared his life example with my students for years. He made very little money as a professional basketball player. However, during the off-season, he went to work at a Wendy’s and learned the business. He ended up buying that Wendy’s, and then hundreds more. Eventually, he became a big-time businessman, owning BET and many other ventures. Quite an incredible story. Sad to hear of his passing.

There really should be a movie made about Junior Bridgeman's life. Such an inspirational story that not enough people know about.

RIP to Oliver Miller too