PRICIEST JOCK DIVORCES: Tom Brady got off lightly. Just ask Tiger.

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The implosion of NFL great Tom Brady’s marriage to supermodel Gisele Bundchen cast a pall over what was — allegedly — his grand finale season.

But while Brady and his Tampa Bay Buccaneers struggled on the field, financially the divorce that became official in October didn’t really hit his pocketbook the way it does most people.

Then again, most of us aren’t married to supermodels who are stinking rich in their own right.

For other athletes, a split can be financially devastating. Here are some of the biggest divorces in the sports world.

SHAQ AND SHAUNIE O’NEAL

PRICE: $20,000 A MONTH

411: Besides the BIG payout when the couple split, the NBA great turned broadcaster shells out $20,000 a month in spousal and child support. It could have been worse: Shaq signed a prenup that largely protected his estimated $425 million fortune. She pulled the trigger citing the star’s infidelity.

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NICK AND VALERIE FALDO

PRICE: $9 MILLION

411: For his third marriage, the three-time Masters champ was in love with love calling Valerie “The One.” And in 2006, it cost him a bundle. But don’t shed too many tears for old Nick: He’s still worth around $43 million.

MIKE TYSON AND ROBIN GIVENS

PRICE: $13.5 MILLION

411: Those of us who are a certain age can well recall the high-octane drama during boxing great Mike Tyson’s romance with the sitcom star. For starters, Robin Givens brought along her mother for their first date and eight months later, they were married. A year later, they were divorced. She claimed the Champ was prone to violent outbursts. Where is Givens now?

HULK AND LINDA HOGAN

PRICE: $13.5 MILLION

411: The beloved Hulkster married Linda in 1983, but by 2009 there was acrimony. She claimed the WWE star had sex with their daughter’s pal. War was declared and by the time the dust had settled, she captured 70% of the pair’s liquid assets. Plus, she won 40% ownership in his companies. So much for prayin’, trainin’ and takin’ your vitamins.

ALEX RODRIGUEZ AND CYNTHIA SCURTIS

PRICE: $24 MILLION

411: The slimy Yankees slugger had a reputation as road dog. The PED-charged star met Cynthia in a Miami gym in 2002 and the duo would have two kids together. By 2008, she’s had enough and cited “emotional abandonment” in her divorce filing. Oh, and A-Rod’s litany of “extramarital affairs” didn’t go over well either. She got the Miami mansion, too.

LANCE AND KRISTIN ARMSTRONG

PRICE: $18.3 MILLION

411: That’s A LOT of steroids. Once, the disgraced cyclist had been worth a whopping $177 million, but his legal trials and tribulations over doping evisterated that. The duo were married in 1998 and had three kids. As he dated songbird Sheryl Crow, the couple annouced they were splitting.

TIGER WOODS AND ELIN NORDEGREN

PRICE: $98 MILLION

411: There was no pussyfooting around in this split. One-time choirboy Tiger Woods’ picture-perfect marriage to slinky Swede Elin spectacularly imploded on Thanksgiving 2009. The National Enquirer exposed his affair with Rachel Uchitel and daliances with clubhouse girls, barmaids and grandma porn stars. She allegedly chased him with a golf club as he tried to make good his escape. The split also costs him tens of millions in endorsements.

GREG NORMAN AND LAURA ANDRASSY

PRICE: $101 MILLION

411: The Shark got swallowed whole in divorce court in 2007 after the meltdown of his 22-year marriage to ex-flight attendant Laura Andrassy. The next year, he married tennis great Chris Evert. That went kaput after a year.

 MICHAEL AND JUANITA JORDAN

PRICE: $164 MILLION

411: Ouch! Chicago Bulls great Jordan met his wife-to-be in a Chicago resto and the pair married in Las Vegas in 1989. They split in 2006 using the old chestnut, “irreconcilable differences.” She also tried to book a bus to Quitsville in 2002, but the pair attempted a reconciliation.

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