Basketball Hall of Famer Yao Ming made more than $93 million in his nine-year stint with the Houston Rockets, yet he still took the time to fulfill a promise he made to his parents by earning a college degree.
And, this wasn't some honorary degree that universities occassionally give to celebrities. The 37-year-old actually wrote the papers and took the tests.
After retiring at 30 due to a series of injuries that derailed his NBA career, Yao enrolled in China's Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2011. Due to time spent on charity work, it took Yao seven years to finish all his courses, but he earned his degree in economics on Sunday.