Top 10 richest California HS basketball players based on NIL

9. Tounde Yessoufou  

The 6-foot-5 junior power forward at St. Joseph High School has an NIL valuation of $117,000. 

Yessoufou’s NIL worth is highly driven by the fact that he’s ranked as the No. 3 overall player in California for the Class of 2025 by 247 Sports Composite. It also helps that he has 20,000 followers across Instagram, TikTok and X to potentially capitalize off of. 

However, it’s unclear how he’s able to profit from his name, image and likeness. Yessoufou is a native of Benin (a country in West Africa), and international students are generally unable to take advantage of NIL agreements due to visa limitations. However – should this restriction pertain to him – he would be able to make NIL money when he’s not on U.S. soil. 

History was made Saturday night at the Alaska Airlines Classic as St. Joseph's Tounde Yessoufou broke the tournament's all-time scoring record of 105 points, breaking the previous record of 98 points was set in 1990 by Bishop Sullivan's Doug Annison. @SJ_Hoops pic.twitter.com/4jzXnE3b5w

— Alaska Airlines Classic (@akair_classic) January 21, 2024