Kurt Badenhausen<\/a> of Sportico reported Jordan’s Game 3 jersey from the 1998 NBA Finals victory over the Utah Jazz sold for a record $12.3 million through the auction platform Joopiter, which was founded by musician Pharrell Williams.<\/p>\nThe previous record sale price for an NBA jersey was Jordan’s Game 1 jersey from that same series, which sold for $10.1 million in 2022.<\/p>\n
Still, both numbers are well behind the highest price for any sports jersey, which was Babe Ruth’s “called shot” one from the 1932 World Series that sold for a stunning $24.1 million in 2024.<\/p>\n
“I’ve always felt like when I own these things, I’m a steward of a piece of history,” Rob Gough, who was the seller, said of the latest Jordan jersey to sell at a record price.<\/p>\n
Chicago cruised to a 96-54 victory in Game 3 of the 1998 NBA Finals in a contest that stood out from the rest of the series. The other five games were decided by five points or less, including the decisive Game 6 when Jordan hit the winning shot in a one-point victory.<\/p>\n
The Hall of Famer played just 32 minutes in the Game 3 blowout and finished with a game-high 24 points.<\/p>\n
The series was Jordan’s final one with the Bulls, and he fittingly played the role of hero in Game 6 with a late steal and jumper to secure his sixth championship. It was the third straight title in his second threepeat with the first coming from 1991-93.<\/p>\n
And now one of the jerseys he wore during that series sold for more than $12 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Jordan is still setting records 28 years after his “Last Dance” season with the Chicago Bulls. Well,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":910800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-910799","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\/910799","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=910799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/910800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}