Famous Athletes' Earnings from Past Decade Are Well Short of Powerball Winner's

Ever envied your favorite athlete's monster wages?

Well, win Powerball's humongous, $1.5 billion jackpot, and you just may become the envy of those professional players.

To put the historic lottery's payout into perspective, its prize-claimer would walk away with almost twice the dough superstar golfer Tiger Woods has acquired over the last decade. 

Even famously wealthy boxing champion Floyd Mayweather's 10-year earnings amount to less than half of what the Powerball promises.

As for greats like Kobe Bryant, LeBron James and Phil Mickelson? They're each more than $1 billion short.

In fact, it would take combining the three to roughly reach the lucrative sum—a combined 30 years at the top of their games equaled by one night's winnings.

Suddenly, those 292 million-1 odds don't seem so bad...

[Forbes]