While both Deron Williams and Jason Williams are both NBA point guards worthy of notoriety, they can't top the contributions that 'Mr. Clutch' Jerry West has instilled throughout his career as NBA player and front office executive in the league. There's no denying the man that is the living embodiment of the NBA logo. The 6'2 point guard, born in Chelyan, West Virginia played three years of collegiate basketball at the University of West Virginia before being drafted 2nd overall by the Minneapolis Lakers in 1960 NBA Draft.
From there he went on to lead the Lakers to an NBA Championship in 1970 and he's the only NBA player to be named NBA Finals MVP after losing the series in 1967. Mr. West also notched a total of fourteen NBA All-Star honors and ten All-NBA First Team roster spots throughout his fourteen-year long NBA career. He's also quite the NBA executive, he's helped the Lakers win a total of six NBA Championships as a talent scout and general manager and he even set up the current Golden State Warriors dynasty up for success.
In the US, the average spent on an engagement ring is $6,351 but how do these figures compare with our favorite celebrities? The answer: they don't. As the diamonds increase in size, obviously the price tag appreciates handsomely. Well, we've compiled a list of some of the most expensive celebrity engagement rings.
This list would be nothing without Kim Kardashian's rock from Kanye, which clocked in at around a cool $4 million when he presented it to her at his stadium proposal in October 2013. Unfortunately, though, the 15-carat sparkler was among the jewelry stolen during Kim's infamous Paris robbery in 2016.
Jennifer Lopez's husband Alex Rodriguez popped the question to the singer, and he really had to step it up to outshine her previous engagement rings—and wow, did he deliver. The baseball star proposed with a reported 15-20 carat emerald cut stunner set on a platinum band that was estimated at $5 million. It's getting harder and harder not to be fooled by the rocks she's got...
It should come as no surprise that Beyonce herself totes one of the world's highest-valued diamonds. Weighing in at 24 carats, Jay reportedly paid around $5 million (now worth $6,047,013) for Bey's flashy emerald-cut ring back in 2008.
Anna Kournikova's relationship Latin music artist Enrique Iglesias since the early '00s has been one of the most lowkey celebrity relationships to date. That is with the exception of her $5,400,000 engagement ring that made headlines in 2004. Now, worth a whopping $7,443,596, the giant yellow stunner was spotted on Kournikova even during her tennis matches. (Pssst! It's rumored she got two rings from Iglesias. Prior to this, she sported an equally giant pink pear-shaped ring.)
Clocking in as the most expensive celebrity engagement ring, Mariah Carey's 35-carat bling from ex-fiancé James Packer reportedly cost a cool $10 million. And the "Obsessed" singer seemed to be a bit, well, obsessed with the jewel. She continued to wear the ring over a year post-breakup, and didn't part ways with the bauble until May 2018, selling it to a Los Angeles jeweler for $2.1 million.