A game-worn high school jersey from Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant sold for more than $2 million at auction.<\/p>\n
Cllct’s Darren Rovell noted how much the jersey had risen in value:<\/p>\n
The $2.2 million price tag is the highest-ever for a high school jersey and nearly double the previous record. The St. Vincent-St. Mary’s jersey LeBron James donned for his famous Sports Illustrated cover<\/a> reached $1.3 million<\/a> at auction in 2024.<\/p>\n Bryant’s exploits at Lower Merion High School in Pennsylvania made him a national star before he arrived in the NBA. As a senior, he was a McDonald’s All-American and earned multiple national player of the year honors.<\/p>\n The Charlotte Hornets selected Bryant 13th overall in the 1996 NBA draft but traded him<\/a> to the Lakers for Vlade Divac. Bryant preferred to land in L.A., and general manager Jerry West recognized early on<\/a> the teenager had the potential to be special.<\/p>\n Needless to say, West was proven correct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A game-worn high school jersey from Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant sold for more than $2 million…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[183,185,184,186],"class_list":["post-316901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lower-merion","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\/316901","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=316901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}