The sale began Friday and will run until Oct. 28. There are 11 bids on the jersey, with the current bid at $450,000. Sotheby\u2019s website predicts it will sell from between $1 million and $2 million.<\/p>\n
This same jersey of Bryant\u2019s was sold for $51,400 in 2013 through Goldin Auctions. It was exhibited in 2025, and the seller decided to put it up for sale, according to PhillyVoice<\/a>. It is from the collection of Bryant\u2019s mother, Pamela, and will come with a letter from her. <\/p>\n Lower Merion’s Kobe Bryant in a game against Coatesville on Feb. 27, 1996.Read more<\/a>Ron Cortes \/ Staff Photographer<\/p>\n As a senior in 1996, Bryant led Lower Merion to a 31-3 record and a PIAA Class 4A state championship, the school\u2019s first in more than 50 years.<\/a> He finished his career as the leading scorer from southeastern Pennsylvania with 2,883 points, surpassing Wilt Chamberlain.<\/p>\n \u201cNo one walked into high school saying, \u2018Oh, yeah, I want to win a state championship,\u2019\u201d Doug Young, a Lower Merion teammate of Bryant\u2019s, told The Inquirer earlier this year. \u201cBut [Kobe] knew what that was. He was like, \u2018I don\u2019t know any other way. If we\u2019re not going to win a championship, what the heck are we playing for?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n \u00bb READ MORE: Kobe Bryant turned Chester-Lower Merion into a decades-long basketball rivalry<\/a><\/p>\n With Lower Merion, Bryant initially wore No. 24, which he wore for 10 seasons in the NBA, but switched to the No. 33 being auctioned for his junior season \u2014 the same number his father, Joe, wore in high school.<\/p>\n Joe, nicknamed \u201cJellybean,\u201d grew up in Philadelphia and played for John Bartram High School before attending La Salle<\/a>. He played his first four NBA seasons with the 76ers<\/a>. <\/p>\n Bryant was drafted 13th overall out of high school by the Charlotte Hornets before being traded to the Los Angeles Lakers.<\/p>\n With the Lakers, Bryant won five NBA championships, two Finals MVP awards, and was the league\u2019s MVP in 2008. He died in a helicopter crash on Jan. 26, 2020, at age 46. <\/p>\n Bryant has had plenty of jerseys auctioned in the past from his illustrious NBA career. His Lakers\u2019 debut jersey sold for $7 million in 2025, which remains the record price for Bryant\u2019s memorabilia. <\/p>\n Watch the first episode<\/p>\n After an exciting Sixers offseason highlighted by the additions of LeBron James and Jaylen Brown, join Inquirer beat writers Gina Mizell and Chris Hine for a preview of the season. Watch here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Watch the full interview below and subscribe to the Sixers Extra podcast on Spotify<\/a> or Apple Podcasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to article \u2022\u00a00:00 min Now\u2019s your chance to get your hands on a game-worn Kobe Bryant jersey.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[126330,183,185,184,186],"class_list":["post-308181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lower-merion","tag-kobe-bryant-lower-merion-jersey-auction","tag-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion-headlines","tag-lower-merion-news","tag-lower-merion-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792181529_522_circle_outline_footer_light_theme.png\"\/)
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