{"id":157561,"date":"2020-05-17T20:05:04","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T03:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=157561"},"modified":"2020-05-17T20:05:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T03:05:04","slug":"video-tony-hawk-has-a-higher-net-worth-than-larry-bird-and-charles-barkley-combined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=157561","title":{"rendered":"Video &#8211; Tony Hawk Has a Higher Net Worth Than Larry Bird and Charles Barkley Combined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You probably know Tony Hawk as the most famous professional skateboarder, but did you know he\u2019s one of the richest athletes in the world? That\u2019s right, Hawk\u2019s career earnings combined with his entrepreneurial success in retirement has built his net worth to be higher than Larry Bird and Charles Barkley\u2018s combined.<\/p>\n<p>Hawk was a skateboarding prodigy as a child. He signed his first sponsorship deal when he was just 12 years old, and he turned pro when he was 14.<\/p>\n<p>Hawk quickly became the best and most famous skater in the world before he even turned 20. He went on to\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W1ftg-nbTyQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You probably know Tony Hawk as the most famous professional skateboarder, but did you know he\u2019s one of the richest athletes in the world? That\u2019s right, Hawk\u2019s career earnings combined with his entrepreneurial success in retirement has built his net worth to be higher than Larry Bird and Charles Barkley\u2018s combined. Hawk was a skateboarding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,84,59,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-action-sports-business-news","category-skateboard-mountain-board","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157562,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157561\/revisions\/157562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}