{"id":911889,"date":"2026-10-01T05:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T05:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/911889\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T05:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T05:48:09","slug":"michael-jordans-last-dance-jersey-sells-for-record-us12-26m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/911889\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Jordan\u2019s \u2018Last Dance\u2019 jersey sells for record US$12.26m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-primary article-summary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Michael Jordan\u2019s jersey from Game 3 of the 1998 NBA Finals sold for US$12.26 million (S$15.7 million) on Sept 29, breaking the record for a piece of Jordan memorabilia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">This jersey, from Jordan\u2019s sixth and final NBA Championship season in his \u201cLast Dance\u201d final campaign with the Chicago Bulls, put up for sale by entrepreneur Ryan Gough and sold at Joopiter, Pharrell Williams\u2019 digital auction house.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">It broke the previous record for a piece of Jordan memorabilia, which was previously US$10.09 million for the game-worn jersey from Game 1 of the same Finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">\u201cFew objects in the history of sport embody greatness as completely as Michael Jordan\u2019s Game 3 jersey from the 1998 NBA Finals,\u201d Joopiter said in the online auction posting for the jersey, with an estimated price range of $10-15 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">\u201cWorn during The Last Dance&#8230; it marks the culmination of an era that transformed basketball into a global cultural phenomenon. Today, it stands among the most important game-worn sports artifacts ever to come to market.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The sale price of this jersey, while a Jordan record, is barely halfway to the total of the highest price paid for a game-worn piece of sports memorabilia in auction history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">That honour belongs to the jersey Babe Ruth wore in the 1932 World Series where he called his shot, which sold for US$24.12 million in 2024. REUTERS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Jordan\u2019s jersey from Game 3 of the 1998 NBA Finals sold for US$12.26 million (S$15.7 million) on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":911890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-911889","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\/911889","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=911889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/911890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}