“I Ended Up Probably Making… Another $50 Million”: Charles Barkley Reveals Michael Jordan’s Life-Changing Advice Over a Game of Golf
Oct 27, 2026 | 9:54 AM EDT IMAGO / Icon Sportswire Michael Jordan once gave Charles Barkley a tip on a golf course that Barkley says was worth about $50 million. Years later, after their friendship fell apart, it took another golf course to bring them back together. The advice came in the early 1990s, when Barkley was earning about $3 million a year from Nike. “We were playing golf, and he said, ‘Chuck, I was talking to somebody. So I want you to quit taking $3 million. Take a million and take the other $2 million in stock options,'” Barkley said on The Dan Patrick Show in June 2025. “So I called my people and said, ‘Hey, Michael told me to do this,’ because Mike’s always been a brilliant businessman.” However, his advisors were not sure about the idea. “And they’re like, ‘This is risky. You think he’s going to be that great?’ I said, ‘Man, I ain’t never seen nobody like that dude,’…