{"id":187800,"date":"2025-10-03T16:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T16:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/187800\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T16:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T16:05:07","slug":"kobes-first-no-24-lakers-jersey-sold-for-almost-900k-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/187800\/","title":{"rendered":"Kobe’s First No. 24 Lakers Jersey Sold For Almost $900K | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kobe Bryant\u2019s first No. 24 jersey, worn by the Los Angeles Lakers from 2006, sold for $889,000 at Sotheby’s.<\/p>\n

According to ESPN<\/a>, the jersey is signed by Bryant with the inscriptions “FIRST 24” and “1\/1” on the jersey’s numbers. It also has an Upper Deck hologram, \u201cas the company had an autograph and memorabilia deal with Bryant until 2009.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bryant debuted the jersey on Nov. 3, 2006 posting 23 points in a 118-112 victory against the Seattle Supersonics. The same season, he told reporters why the jersey change was significant.<\/p>\n

“When I first came in at 8, I was really trying to ‘plant your flag’ sort of thing. I got to prove that I belong here in this league,\u201d Bryant explained<\/a>. \u201c I’ve got to prove that I’m one of the best in this league. You’re going after them. It’s nonstop energy and aggressiveness and stuff.”<\/p>\n

After switching jersey numbers, Bryant led the Lakers to two NBA championships and earned back-to-back Finals MVP honors in 2009 and 2010, driving the Lakers to three consecutive NBA Finals appearances.<\/p>\n

While the price of the 2006 jersey was quite expensive, it pales in comparison to some of Bryant\u2019s other items.\u00a0 A team jersey from his 1996-97 rookie season went for $7 million<\/a> at Sotheby\u2019s in April and remains the most ever paid for any Bryant jersey. That jersey was sold by Sotheby’s in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kobe Bryant\u2019s first No. 24 jersey, worn by the Los Angeles Lakers from 2006, sold for $889,000 at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-187800","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}