{"id":815076,"date":"2026-07-20T22:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T22:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/815076\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T22:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T22:38:10","slug":"wilt-chamberlain-lakers-nba-finals-jacket-bought-at-thrift-store-could-sell-for-150k-at-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/815076\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilt Chamberlain Lakers NBA Finals Jacket Bought at Thrift Store Could Sell for $150K at Auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">A lucky teenager found a rare Wilt Chamberlain warmup jacket at a thrift store, and it could earn him a massive profit at auction. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Per the Associated Press&#8217; <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/auction-lakers-jacket-wilt-chamberlain-thrift-store-3d664d9fe306818b9a828357aa2a9a9f\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Claire Rush<\/a>, 19-year-old Quinn Brown purchased a warmup jacket worn by Chamberlain at an Oregon thrift store for $3.07, and it is now up for auction on Sotheby&#8217;s website. The jacket could sell for more than $150,000. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The jacket was worn by Chamberlain during the 1972 NBA Finals when the Los Angeles Lakers beat the New York Knicks for their first title since moving to Los Angeles. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">&#8220;I didn&#8217;t even think that finding something like this was possible,&#8221; Brown said. &#8220;I got very, very lucky.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">According to Rush, Brown found the jacket in January and spent months researching to find out if it was worth something. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">&#8220;I really just wanted to make sure, because it was so hard to believe at the time,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Sotheby&#8217;s also used photo verification to determine that the jacket had actually been worn by Chamberlain. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Chamberlain, a Hall of Famer who played from 1959 to 1973, holds the record for the most points scored in a single game (100). He won a pair of championships, one with the 76ers and another with the Lakers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Finding any former player&#8217;s warmup jacket at a thrift store is notable, and Brown just happened to strike gold by finding one worn by an all-time great. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A lucky teenager found a rare Wilt Chamberlain warmup jacket at a thrift store, and it could earn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":815077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-815076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}