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Junior Bridgeman net worth: Junior Bridgeman is an American retired professional basketball player and highly successful fast food entrepreneur who has a net worth of $600 million. As an NBA player, Junior Bridgeman had a moderately successful 12-year career playing for the Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Clippers. His highest single-season salary was $350,000. He took what money he made and invested all of it into fast food franchises. Specifically Wendy’s food chains. Today he is one of the richest athletes in history and a model for finding success after leaving professional sports. Early Life: Junior Bridgeman was born Ulysses Lee “Junior” Bridgeman in 1953 in East Chicago, Indiana (yes, Indiana, not Illinois as you might assume). His father was a blue-collar steel mill worker – a very common job in East Chicago during the era in which Junior grew up. From a very early age, Junior showed an incredible knack for basketball. He led his high school basketball team to a state championship in 1971. At 6’5″, Bridgeman played guard and forward during college at the University of Louisville, where he was also a member of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. After obtaining his bachelor’s degree, Junior Bridgeman was drafted with the 8th overall pick in the first round of the 1975 NBA Draft by the Los Angeles Lakers and was then immediately traded to the Milwaukee Bucks for Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Career: Bridgeman had a very successful NBA career, scoring 11,517 career points. In his 12-year NBA career (10 with Milwaukee, two with the Clippers), Bridgeman was mostly a sixth man. For nine consecutive seasons, he averaged double figures in scoring. He holds the Milwaukee franchise record for the number of games played at 711, though he only started in 105 of those games. Bridgeman was a good basketball player, solid and steady. Junior realized that his window of time in the NBA would be relatively short. At some point, the paychecks would stop coming in and he would need to find a new source of steady income. So, on a whim, Junior decided to purchase a franchise of his favorite fast food restaurant: Wendy’s. While other NBA players hung out during the offseason, Bridgeman was working in local Wendy’s—learning his burgeoning business from every angle and building a foundation for the rest of his and his family’s lives. By the time his playing days were over, Junior owned three Wendy’s. Over the next few years, Junior slowly expanded Bridgeman Foods Inc. Three locations grew to six. Six grew to ten. Ten grew to twenty and so on. Business boomed thanks largely to Junior’s highly dedicated work ethic. Instead of sitting back and collecting checks from a beach, Junior was frequently seen behind the counters working at his own restaurants. One day, a customer recognized Junior in his Wendy’s uniform making french fries. The customer was shocked and immediately called into a local sports talk radio show to say how sad it was to see a formerly great NBA player down on his luck, forced to work in fast food asking people “do you want fries with that?” By 2016, Bridgeman Foods Inc operated more than 160 Wendy’s and more than 120 Chili’s franchises. Bridgeman employs over 11,000 people and has annual revenues in excess of $530 million dollars. Junior was the second-largest Wendy’s franchise owner in the world and frequently listed as one of the most admired business leaders in America. He became a franchisee of Fazoli’s and Blaze Pizza as well. In 2016, he sold his fast-food empire. The parent company of Chili’s bought back 116 of Bridgeman’s franchises. Bridgeman’s Chili’s locations generated about $300 million in annual revenue. In 2017, Bridgeman became a bottler for The Coca-Cola Company, and in 2018, he signed a letter of intent to buy bottling operations in Canada. Junior is now the president and CEO of Coca-Cola Heartland. He runs the company, its production plant in Lenexa, Kansas, and its 18 regional distribution centers with his son Justin. Heartland’s operations span most of Kansas, a significant portion of Missouri, a little over half of Illinois and a small part of Nebraska. Among the charitable organizations Heartland supports are Crittenton Children’s Center at St. Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City and the Crisis Nursery and St. Patrick Center in St. Louis. In 2018, Bridgeman unsuccessfully bid to purchase Sports Illustrated from its parent company. Personal Life: He has been married to his wife Doris for more than 35 years. The couple has three adult children who all have MBAs and work in the family business. Bridgeman’s number 2 jersey was retired by the Milwaukee Bucks in 1988. Bridgeman has personally supported the founding of several basketball camps and a Louisville boys’ school for children that were homeless. He sits on the board of the PGA. Salary Highlights: His professional basketball career lasted from 1975 to 1987, in the era just before players were paid crazy amounts of money. Bridgeman’s peak NBA salary was $350,000 from the Clippers in 1985.

Joe Walsh net worth: Joe Walsh is an American musician, singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor who has a net worth of $75 million. He is best known for being a guitarist and vocalist for the popular American rock band Eagles. Early Life: Joseph Fidler Walsh was born in Wichita, Kansas on November 20, 1947. He came from a musical family, as his mother was a classically trained pianist. Walsh was adopted by his stepfather at age five after his biological dad was killed in a plane crash. The family lived in Columbus, Ohio for many years during his youth. He got his first guitar at age 10 and learned The Ventures’ “Walk Don’t Run.”  At 12, the family moved to New York City, and later attended Montclair High School where Walsh played oboe in his school band. He became part of a popular local band the Nomads and then played in various bands while attending college at Kent State University. Walsh majored in English and minored in music and was present during the Kent State massacre in 1970, after which he dropped out of the university. Music Career: After leaving school, Joe Walsh reached a national audience when he became lead guitarist of the James Gang. The James Gang opened up for The Who on a European tour and had several minor hits, including “Funk #49,” which highlighted his skills as both a singer and a guitarist. Walsh left James Gang in 1972 and formed Barnstorm with college friend Joe Vitale and bassist Kenny Passarelli. The band stayed together for three years and produced three albums. Their last album, 1974’s “So What”, contained many guest contributions from several members of the Eagles. Walsh’s producer Bill Szymczyk was also the producer of the Eagles and Szymczyk suggested Walsh join the Eagles. In 1975, Walsh joined the Eagles as the band’s guitarist and keyboard, replacing their founding member Bernie Leadon. As luck would have it, the first Eagles album that Walsh was a part of was “Hotel California”, their second best selling album of all time. The singles from the album included “Hotel California”, “Take It Easy”, and “Desperado,” which all became some of the Eagles’ signature songs. The hard-rocking tune “Life in the Fast Lane” was based around a riff by Walsh and reached No. 11 on the charts. The next year, the Eagles released their first compilation album, “Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975), which became the highest-selling album of the 20th century in the United States.  Their next album, 1979’s “The Long Run” took two years to complete and was considered a disappointing follow up by some critics compared to “Hotel California”, but still proved a huge commercial hit for the band. The album topped the charts and sold 7 million copies. Three top ten singles by Walsh received considerable airplay: “Heartache Tonight,” The Long Run,” and “I Can’t Tell You Why.” The Eagles split up in 1980 and took a fourteen-year hiatus, meanwhile, Walsh went his own separate way entirely. Walsh had already forged a solo career while part of the Eagles, releasing albums such as “So What,” “You Can’t Argue with a Sick Mind,” and 1978’s “But Seriously, Folks…” Following the break up of the Eagles, he continued to release solo albums throughout the eighties although sales never quite met the same level of his earlier successes. He released “There Goes the Neighborhood” in 1981 and it peaked at No. 20. The album spawned just one single, but it went on to become one of Walsh’s most popular tunes, “A Life of Illusion.” In May 1983, Walsh released “You Bought it — You Name It”, which was largely negatively reviewed by critics. He released two more albums in the eighties that were deemed commercial disappointments. Walsh went on to release four more albums: 1991’s “Ordinary Average Guy,” “Songs for a Dying Planet” in 1992, “Analog Man” in 2012,’ and 2013’s “All Night Long: Live in Dallas.” Over the years, Walsh collaborated with countless big names in the music industry, including BB King, Dan Fogelberg, Randy Newman, Bob Seegar, Ringo Starr, Sheryl Crow, Warren Zevon, and many others. In 2001, he joined the Eagles reunion and resumed touring with them. Other Ventures: He has appeared in The Blues Brothers, RoboCop, The Drew Carey Show, MADtv, and The Voice. Walsh has long been active in preserving Santa Cruz Island’s parks, and is President of the Santa Cruz Island Foundation. He had a mock presidential campaign in 1980 where he promised free gas for everyone. In 2012 he told WASH FM that he would seriously consider running for Congress. In 2017, Walsh organized and performed in what became VetsAid, a concert series similar to the likes of Willie Nelson’s Farm Aid. Personal Life: Walsh was married to Margie Walsh in the 1960s, Stefany Rhodes from 1971-1978, Juanita Boyer from 1980-1988, and Denise Driscoll from 1999-2006. Walsh and Stevie Nicks had a well-publicized fling in the ’80s. He married Marjorie Bach in December 2008. Walsh’s eldest daughter Emma Kristen (b.1971) died at age 3 due to a car accident on her way to nursery school. Walsh’s daughter Lucy Walsh is also a solo musician. Walsh admits to struggling with alcohol and drug additions for much of his early career. He has been in recovery since 1993. Real Estate: For roughly three decades his primary home was a mansion in Studio City, California which he sold in 2018 for $1.9 million. In 2013 Joe paid $3.95 million for a home above Beverly Hills, California. He listed the home for sale in May 2019 for $5.3 million, and ultimately $4.6 million in October 2019. Here is a video walk through of the home: He owns a second home in the so-called “Beverly Hills Post Office” area, which he bought in 2008 for $4.5 million. Legacy: Walsh has been ranked #54 by Rolling Stone in the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. As part of the Eagles, Walsh won five Grammy Awards. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the Eagles in 1998. Walsh’s guitar solo for Hotel California was selected the best guitar solo of all time by Guitarist magazine in 1998. His guitar work has been praised by Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, and Pete Townshend. He has produced albums for Ringo Starr and Dan Fogelberg.

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