A wild rumor spread through the NBA that a 13-year journeyman who's made $81 million was actually a billionaire thanks to a Google mixup

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Jose Calderon has been baffled by the rumor that he's a billionaire.

• A mixup on Google labeled Cleveland Cavaliers guard Jose Calderon as having a stake in a bottling company for Coca-Cola and having a $2.2 billion net worth.
• The rumor spread around the internet and eventually into the NBA, where the Cavs and other players have relentlessly teased Calderon.
• Despite Calderon's insistence that the information is not accurate, the Cavs are skeptical and have forced things like dinner checks onto him.

Jose Calderon has done well for himself in his 13-year career, earning $81 million, according to Basketball-Reference.

However, a mixup on Google labeled Calderon a billionaire with a $2.2 billion net worth, confusing him for Jose and Francisco Jose Calderon Rojas, two Mexican brothers whose father owns a stake in FEMSA, a bottling company for Coca-Cola.

Despite the mistake and Calderon's insistence that he is not a billionaire, the rumor has become a constant source of humor for the Cleveland Cavaliers and widespread gossip around the NBA, according to ESPN's Dave McMenamin.

The rumor, which made its way around the internet, was first discovered by former Cavs big man Channing Frye. Once Frye made the team aware, it was all downhill for Calderon.

"Everybody was talking about that," Cavs rookie Cedi Osman told McMenamin. "Everybody. EVERYBODY. He makes a play, and it's like, 'Nice job, man ... $2.2 billion ... that's great.'"

"I wish I could say, 'Yeah, it is true. ...' But, no, no, no. No, it's not," Calderon said.

LeBron James is one of several players who called it a "joke" but also said nobody knows if it's true or not. He said at a team dinner, Frye passed the check to Calderon.

Others around the NBA have picked up on it, too. Calderon told McMenamin that during a game against the New York Knicks, guards Courtney Lee and Jarrett Jack asked him about it. 

"'Everybody's been talking,'" Calderon remembered Jack saying. "'It's true. The $2.2 billion. It's true.'"

According to McMenamin, the Google error has since been fixed. McMenamin explained that Google's algorithm occasionally pulls from shoddy resources to create the "one-boxes," the text at the top of the search that displays information about the searched subject. Calderon expressed confusion to McMenamin about how the rest of the information on Google was correct except for his net worth.

"I straight up asked him," Cavs forward Jeff Green said. "And did he give me a straight response? No. Do I believe that he is? Maybe. I don't know."

"I'm doing OK for myself," James told McMenamin. "But listen, I heard what [Calderon] has going on, so there will be some conversations."

"I don't have family in Mexico," Calderon said. "Nothing. I'm just from Spain. It's a totally different guy."