Spanish basketball player Jose Calderon, 36, now plays for NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers who pay him about 2.33 million dollars (pre-tax) a year. Having played for almost 13 seasons in the league, he has made around 84 million dollars in total, not a very astonishing number. However, ESPN's Dave McMenamin wrote on Friday that "Jose Calderon is not a billionaire, but don't tell the Cavs that."

The story began with a search by Calderon's former teammate Channing Frye who was traded to the Los Angeles Lakers in February. Obsessed with social media, Frye found out through Google that Jose Calderon's father had shares in FEMSA, Coca-Cola's bottling company, making Calderon the inheritor of about 2.2 billion US dollars.

Frye's discovery immediately spread all over the Cavs. "Everybody was talking about that. Everybody, everybody. He makes a play and it's like, 'Nice job, man ... $2.2 billion ... that's great,'" said rookie player Cedi Osman.

Even players from other teams heard the news. During a game between the New York Knicks and the Cavaliers, Courtney Lee went to Jarrett Jack and said, "Hey! J.J.! Ask him! You got to ask him! (about the 2.2-billion-dollar-rumor)".

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

The true owners of the 2.2 billion dollars are two brothers, Jose and Francisco Jose Calderon Rojas from Mexico. Cavs' guard Jose Calderon, is from Spain.

"I don't have family in Mexico. Nothing. I'm just from Spain. It's a totally different guy. But the weird part is like, everything else [in the Google search] is true. It's got my wife's name. I got three boys. I've played here and there. So, everything they talk about is true, but the wealth? No. No. Not true," said Calderon.

Brian Warner, owner of CelebrityNetWorth.com, a website founded in 2008 that tracks and evaluates the wealth of celebrities based on public information, salaries and real estate transactions of users, has given an explanation for the rumor.

"Google has these one-boxes that are pulling data from a number of other sources, and we are one of them, Forbes is one of them. Unfortunately, it's not a very smart system, in my opinion," Warner said. "It sort of just pulls information in blindly and isn't able to, for example, tell the difference between an NBA player named Jose Calderon and a Mexican billionaire named Jose Calderon Rojas. So, the wires get crossed and this stuff happens all the time," said Warner.

Though Google has already corrected the search error, tons of searches for Calderon have showed up on CelebrityNetWorth.com. In early May when the rumor was still being spread, over 10,000 searches were made for the name Calderon in one day.

Though not a billionaire, Jose Calderon indeed has investments. He is the co-owner of an organic pig farm in Spain, according to ESPN. And another rumor about him is that, he never drinks Coca-Cola, at least that's what he says.