Want to own one of the jerseys Michael Jordan wore during the 1998 NBA Finals, when he won his sixth and final championship with the Chicago Bulls? Then find a way to access at least US$10 million (S$12.8 million) by Sept 15.<\/p>\n
That is the estimated floor for the bidding on the Jordan jersey that will be conducted by auction house Joopiter, per The Athletic.<\/p>\n
The piece of memorabilia available is the white Bulls jersey that Jordan wore on June 7, 1998, when the Bulls crushed the Utah Jazz, 96-54, in Game 3 at United Center to take a 2-1 lead in the series. He produced a game-high 24 points in 32 minutes.<\/p>\n
Joopiter assumes the Game 3 jersey will go for at least US$10 million because Jordan\u2019s Game 1 jersey owns the record for priciest game-worn memorabilia. It went for US$10.1 million in 2022, when the market for such commodities was nowhere near its current heights.<\/p>\n
\u201cJordan remains a very, very, very rare relic, certainly in comparison with the GOATs (slang for \u201cgreatest of all time\u201d) of today \u2013 the LeBrons, the Stephen Currys \u2013 because it was a different era,\u201d Barry Meisel, the founder of sports memorabilia company MeiGray, told The Athletic.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere were no game-worn jersey programmes. Teams weren\u2019t putting a jersey on a player\u2019s back every game or every couple of games.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jordan won six NBA titles in an eight-year span with the Bulls, but the 1998 championship run was dubbed \u201cThe Last Dance\u201d because it was the final time he, Scottie Pippen and others played for the Bulls.<\/p>\n
Jordan retired for three years, but returned to the NBA in 2001 and played two seasons for the Washington Wizards. REUTERS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Want to own one of the jerseys Michael Jordan wore during the 1998 NBA Finals, when he won…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":859408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-859407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859407","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=859407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}