Meet the British Sportsman making more money in the US than David Beckham
Luol Deng is bringing home plenty of the good paper
Luol Deng is a 23-year-old forward who entered the NBA draft in 2004, and has since been plying his trade with the Chicago Bulls. Deng was born in Sudan, but when his family claimed political asylum he moved to South Norwood, where he narrowly avoided becoming a Crystal Palace fan and chose to follow Arsenal.
He moved to the US to play netball when he was 14, and yesterday signed a six-year deal with the Bulls that should line his pockets with £40m, almost twice the basic salary David Beckham is earning in Los Angeles. (Although Mr B is likely to earn much more than this because of his tendency to hawk underwear, fizzy drinks and marker pens.)
Despite being a good nine inches taller than the LA Galaxy star, humble Deng he would never consider himself bigger than Beckham, and after negotiating a weekly wage just shy of that taken home by Frank Lampard (£120,000), he resisted the urge to party like a self-indulgent Premier League star: “I went to the gym, and then to bed early,” he admitted. Now that’s class.
Deng will be in Blighty tomorrow to show us all how incredibly tall he is, and then he will be jetting off to the land of smog to represent Team GB.
1 response so far
Moray // July 31, 2008 at 8:26 am
Netball! I like it…
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