Most notably, Spain will basically be fielding an NBA team, as Chicago's Pau Gasol leads his brother Marc (Memphis), Ibaka (Oklahoma City), Jose Calderon (New York), Ricky Rubio (Minnesota) and the international-competition legend Juan-Carlos Navarro. Juan-Carlos Navarro
Gymnastics is of course a sport lodged right near the brilliant dark heart of Olympic competition, its legends all bound up in the four yearly parcelling out of that miserly gold.
The Legend competition is still held annually.
Britain's men should target a place in the quarter-finals of the Olympic basketball competition, says Brazil legend Oscar Schmidt.
In addition, they have income from product endorsements and earnings from tournaments, like next month's League of Legends competition at Staples Center in Los Angeles.
But with increased competition from Apex Legends, which already boasts 25m players, Epic Games will have to continue its punishing production line of additions and amendments.
Earlier this year, Madison Square Garden played host to a League of Legends competition that sold all 11,000 allotted seats.
College sports broadcaster Big Ten Network plans to air a "League of Legends" competition between rivals Ohio State and Michigan State.
While audiences for eSports can be huge – the final of a 2013 League of Legends competition pulled in 32 million viewers – this is rarely matched in player earnings.
On 20 March, Messi scored three goals against Granada, making him FC Barcelona's leading goalscorer in official competitions, surpassing club legend César Rodríguez, who had previously held the record with 232.
