Introduction

Ja Morant is a professional NBA player for the Memphis Grizzlies with an estimated net worth of $80 Million.

Quick Facts

• Projected to earn $39.4 million in salary for the 2025/26 season
• Lifetime earnings total $149.8 million from salary
• Signed a 5-year, $197.2 million contract with the Memphis Grizzlies in 2023
• Purchased a $1.3 million home for his parents in 2019

Net Worth History

Here’s a breakdown of Ja Morant’s annual net worth:

• 2018 – $15 Million
• 2019 – $40 Million
• 2020 – $71 Million
• 2021 – $76 Million
• 2022 – $80 Million
• 2023 – $80 Million

NBA Salary

In 2019, Ja Morant signed a four-year, $39.6 million rookie contract with the Memphis Grizzlies. For his first season in the league, Morant earned $8.7 million, but by the end of the contract, he was earning $12.1 million per year. 

Once the contract was up, Morant secured a lucrative five-year, $197.2 million extension with the team, which is currently the 22nd-highest-value active contract in the NBA. This deal commenced in the 2023/24 season, earning Ja approximately $34 million that year. Thus far, including this season, Morant has earned $110.2 million under the deal, bringing his career earnings to $149.8 million after just seven NBA seasons. 

After the 2025/26 season concludes, Ja Morant will still have two years remaining on the contract, which are projected to earn him an additional $87 million, bringing his lifetime salary to $236.9 million by the end of the 2027/28 season.

Endorsement Deals

It really didn’t take long for Ja Morant to begin earning impressive stacks of cash off the court. His newfound stardom on the Grizzlies roster has secured him several lucrative partnerships with brands such as Beats by Dre, Bodyarmor, Hulu, Nike, Powerade, and PSD. The financial details behind these endorsements are incredibly speculative, but here are the most notable deals that the athlete has struck.

Nike Contract

Morant was signed by Nike right off the bat ahead of his rookie NBA season in 2019. New athletes typically earn low six-figure sums when first signing with Nike in their rookie years. However, by 2022, Ja Morant had already launched his first signature shoe with the company. The ‘JA’ basketball shoe is now on its third iteration and has been released in several colorways.

What’s interesting about this deal is that multiple sources are reporting Ja’s Nike income at $12 million per year. They also state that he began earning this figure in 2019, which is unheard of for a rookie. This $12 million number keeps popping up, but we were unable to verify the original source. Some outlets list the agreement as a multi-year deal worth $12 million overall, which is more likely. 

Powerade Endorsement

Ja Morant became the face of Powerade in 2023, and the brand began putting together an ad campaign coined “What 50% More Means.” Powerade was preparing to pump $10 million into the campaign and radio and National television advertisements. Still, just days after the announcement, Morant hosted an Instagram Live video on his personal account, where he was seen pulling out a gun at a party. 

As a result, Powerade pulled the campaign, but didn’t sever their partnership with the athlete. The NBA later fined Morant $75,000 for the incident, and he gave a public statement claiming that it was his Second Amendment right to bear arms. 

In a similar scenario to his Nike contract, multiple reports suggest that the Powerade endorsement was either worth $10 million per year or $10 million overall. In either case, we were unable to verify these figures ourselves, but $10 million per year is highly unlikely for such a contract.

Real Estate

In August 2019, Ja Morant bought his parents an 8,987-square-foot, six-bedroom home in Eads, Tennessee, for $1.33 million. The property sits on 7.4 acres and features a home cinema room and games room. Based on recent estimates, the home’s current value is roughly $2.1 million.

According to reports and public records, in August 2022, Ja Morant paid $3.05 million for a 12,862-square-foot, seven-bedroom, eleven-bathroom mansion located close to his parents’ home in Eads. This property spans 6.45 acres and features amenities such as a home theater, games room, sauna, outdoor pool, and barbecue area. Recent estimates place the property’s current value at roughly $3.33 million, with annual property taxes of $29,000.

Expenditure

Ja recently paid $350,000 for a brand-new Aston Martin Vantage and also has a $1 million Rolls-Royce Dawn. He has a Mercedes-Benz A-Class, a Porsche Cayenne, and a Ferrari Roma locked away as well, so he’s not short of cars to choose from.

Summary 

Ja Morant is a promising, extremely skilled basketball player who has made a strong impact on the professional scene early in his career.

Overall, Morant’s career so far can inspire and provide valuable lessons for any player looking to enter professional sports. After he was named the Ohio Valley Conference Player of the Year in both 2018 and 2019 and then drafted by the Memphis Grizzlies, he hasn’t put a foot wrong.

His fans are looking forward to watching him develop into a mature player who will continue to provide entertaining basketball throughout the remainder of his career.

Introduction 

Nick Mercs is an American professional Twitch streamer, YouTuber, and former eSports competitor with an estimated net worth of $12 Million.

Quick Facts

• Earned an estimated $55-$60 million between 2021 and 2025
• Peak annual income of approximately $15 million in 2022
• Signed a one-year, $10 million contract with Kick in 2023
• Earns between $2.5 million and $3 million per year from brand deals
• Sponsors include brands such as Beats by Dre, Under Armour, and UFC

Net Worth History

When we first began tracking Nick Mercs’ net worth in 2021, it was estimated to be roughly $4 million. However, at the time, the gamer had only just begun to blow up on YouTube, thanks to the perfectly timed release of Call of Duty: Warzone amid the 2020 lockdowns. Had these events not occurred, who’s to say what would have happened instead? Since we first published his profile, Nick has earned at least an additional $38 million, according to professional estimates and contracts. 

These estimates relate to his gross earnings, not net profits, given that he has a team working with him. All things considered, the most recent estimates of his net worth sit at approximately $12 Million.

Earnings History

Since 2021, Nick Mercs has been featured on Forbes three times. That year, he earned an estimated $8 million, thanks to his rapid growth on YouTube during the 2020 lockdowns. By 2022, he was earning approximately $15 million per year from YouTube revenues, merchandising, sponsorships, and brand endorsement deals. The following year, Mercs signed a $10 million contract with the streaming platform Kick, and despite the initial pandemic-era traction slowing, the gamer has continued to adapt.

In 2025, Forbes ranked Nick Mercs 27th on its annual list of the world’s top creators, with estimated earnings of $13 million. However, we should note that the list isn’t ranked by annual income. They also use their own “entrepreneur rank” metric, along with engagement levels and follower counts, to rank the list. 

This places Nick Mercs’ total earnings from all three years (2021, 2022, 2025) at an estimated $36 million. It’s pretty safe to assume he earned at least $10 million in 2023 and 2024, likely bringing his earnings over the last five years to between $55 million and $60 million. 

Gaming Career 

Kolcheff built his name as a Gears of War professional in 2000. He played Halo on a professional level. During this time, he has many conversations with Ninja due to trash-talking. 

In 2010, he started to stream on Justin.TV. He rose to fame the following year when he created his own YouTube channel. In 2018, he teamed up with Nadeshot. His squad broke the world record for total kills in Fortnite with 54. Politics, TozSlays, MannyinCali, and JuicyMutt later broke it. 

As already mentioned, he is known for his genius movements and aggressive playstyle. He has earned over $130,000 in Fortnite prizes. In 2019, he joined the FaZe Clan. Despite offers from streaming services, he would stay with Twitch. He earned around $6 million in 2019 and ranked 10th among the highest-earning gamers that year. 

Mercs is known as the leader of MFAM in the gaming community. He often gives back to his community with different giveaways. Sometimes, he likes to put together the MFAM barbecue, a free event for the MFAM members and their loved ones. 

In 2020, the release of Warzone, coupled with extended lockdowns, sparked a massive increase in the daily viewership of video game streams. Nick often teamed up with other gamers on his streams, such as Cloakzy, Courage JD, TimtheTatman, and Faze Swagg.

Kick Streaming Contract

In October 2023, Nick Mercs signed a one-year, $10 million contract with the streaming platform Kick. Interestingly, the contract was not exclusive, meaning Mercs was allowed to continue streaming on other platforms such as YouTube and Twitch. However, in that particular year, Kick would become his primary streaming platform. At the time, Kick was just one year old and was known as a disruptor and an often controversial alternative to traditional platforms. Nick completed the contract in full, but at the end of the term, he decided to return to Twitch, stating it was the best decision for his community. 

Brand Endorsements

There’s one thing Nick Mercs has that not many other esports competitors and streamers have, and that’s previous experience and passion for sports. Mercs played football in high school, is an avid gym-goer, and often discusses his love for watching mixed martial arts and the UFC. In fact, some of the streamer’s earliest YouTube uploads are workout vlogs.

The reason we mention this is that Nick Mercs is almost a hybrid between fitness and gaming, something not many gaming streamers can relate to. As a result, he’s been able to sign lucrative endorsement deals that wouldn’t typically be offered to others in his niche. Common brand endorsements in the gaming niche include energy drinks like G-Fuel and PC hardware products.

Since blowing up on Twitch and YouTube, Mercs has signed agreements with brands such as Beats by Dre, Under Armour, and the UFC. Typically, these three brands focus on working with professional athletes, but Nick’s persona opened the door for such partnerships. In 2023, Forbes reported that Nick earned approximately $2.7 million from endorsement deals in 2022.

Introduction

FaZe Banks is an American YouTuber and entrepreneur with an estimated net worth of $13 Million.

YouTube Channel

Richard Bengston fell in love with video games long before he became a YouTube sensation under the name FaZe Banks. After starting his channel, BanksHasBank, in 2011, he released his first video titled “The Single Greatest SoaRing In Style.” 

At this time, the majority of his content revolved around Call of Duty, and alongside FaZe Rug, he was a member of a COD team called SoaR. While he started relatively small, he eventually branched out on YouTube, adding challenges, pranks, and even vlogs to his channel. However, his gaming content is by far his most popular, and though his channel is inactive today, it is what helped him become so successful! 

FaZe Clan

The FaZe Clan got its start on YouTube in 2013 as a Call of Duty sniping clan founded by CLipZ, House Cat, and Resistance. While they started off creating some of the most-viewed YouTube videos of all time, it wasn’t long before they decided to branch out. 

In 2012, when the channel had gained over a million subscribers, the clan decided to enter the esports world and compete professionally. Members who left the channel began competing in various competitions, including the Call of Duty Championship, but they lacked a corporate structure. 

However, along with CEO Thomas “Temperrr” Oliveira, FaZe Banks, as the COO, set about reading the first FaZe shared home in New York. In this shared home, members, including FaZe Banks, could create additional lifestyle content alongside their gaming videos. It was during this time that he officially started going by the name FaZe Banks, and he changed his YouTube handle accordingly.

The Clout House

In 2017, FaZe Banks moved from New York to Los Angeles and started a new shared home known as the Clout House. During this time, he started focusing more on vlogs alongside other house members while stepping back from his usual gaming. 

Although he continued his YouTube channel after moving to L.A., he stopped uploading entirely, citing too much drama and negativity. The same year, he launched the podcast “Moms Basement” alongside Keemstar and Colossal is Crazy, which ended in 2022. 

Acquired By GameSquare

Although FaZe Clan went public in 2022, the company’s time on the stock market was far from the success everyone hoped for. Shortly after listing on Nasdaq, FaZe Clan’s shares failed to stay above $1, and they were ultimately removed from the exchange. However, the founding members, consisting of FaZe Banks, FaZe Temperrr, and FaZe Apex, have recently come back swinging. 

In October 2023, FaZe Clan was acquired by GameSquare in a deal initially valued at $14 million, though several reports suggest the final value was $17 million. Banks remained CEO, with Temperr as President, and Apex as the COO.

Financial Issues

In early 2025, Banks and members of FaZe Clan began promoting the MLG meme coin using promotional tactics that caused an initial surge in the market. The coin’s value rose from $3 million to $200 million in a matter of days; however, when the hype finally died down, it collapsed. This left the token worthless, and many investors accused Banks of arranging a rug pull, in which early investors profit while later investors end up with tokens worth nothing.

The controversy continued to escalate when, on July 28, 2025, a leaked private investor chat placed Banks at the center of the scandal. Surprisingly, he blamed the streamer Adin Ross for the collapse, stating that Ross’s involvement was used as exit liquidity. This means regular buyers lose out when early buyers sell their coins for a profit. Some messages showed Banks pressuring the MLG team to give him deals and over-the-counter access to tokens, suggesting his involvement went deeper than initially thought.

However, Banks continued to state that he had done nothing wrong, instead claiming that the accusations had been invented to make him look bad. Even though Banks protested his innocence, the leaked chats led fans and members of the gaming community to doubt his claims.

Banks reportedly lost over $100,000 on the project and insisted he never sold his tokens for profit. With the controversy showing no signs of slowing down, Banks announced that he was leaving FaZe Clan and stepping back from online activities.

Tfue Lawsuit

On May 20, 2019, Fortnite streamer Turner “Tfue” Tenney filed a lawsuit against FaZe Clan after alleging that his contract with them took almost 80% of his earnings.​ As a result of the lawsuit, Banks began issuing multiple statements defending FaZe Clan and criticizing Tfue’s account of events. Banks acknowledged the contract was flawed but insisted FaZe Clan never took the claimed 80% and instead tried to renegotiate better terms.​

Three months later, on August 1, 2019, FaZe Clan filed a countersuit, accusing Tfue of hiding at least $20 million worth of earnings without sharing them with other FaZe Clan members. The suit also alleged that Tfue had taken private company documents and had interfered with FaZe Clan’s business deals while convincing other FaZe talent to leave.

Over the following year, the contract in question was leaked to the press, revealing that FaZe Clan was actually entitled to only 20% of Tfue’s earnings from his branded videos. Surprisingly, it also showed that Faze Clan wasn’t claiming any of Tfue’s streaming revenue or prize winnings as he had initially stated. Eventually, both parties agreed to settle out of court on August 26, 2020. Details of the outcome were not made public, and although Banks was not personally named in the suit, as a co-founder, he was responsible for the company’s contracts.