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Banking on Booker: How the Nets forward is planning his future

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Trevor Booker, like many of us, has the lifelong dream of eventually becoming a billionaire.

Trevor Booker, unlike many of us, is a professional basketball player and an entrepreneur at the age of 29 with interests in 18 companies – and counting. He’s not banking on a winning lottery ticket.

We’ve seen the stories time and again, of NBA players squandering their wealth, their status, and their identities over the course of their career, not being able to overcome a collection of transgressions along the way.

Booker’s seen them too. Just a couple of years into his NBA career, the Clemson University graduate understood that he wanted to set himself up for life after basketball, but longed for the means to do it first, in a smart and secure fashion.