{"id":318123,"date":"2026-10-31T05:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T05:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/318123\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T05:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T05:56:09","slug":"kobe-bryants-high-school-jersey-sells-for-record-breaking-2-2-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/318123\/","title":{"rendered":"Kobe Bryant’s high school jersey sells for record-breaking $2.2 million"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everything started at Lower Merion High School for Kobe Bryant<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On Friday, Sotheby\u2019s reported<\/a> that one of Bryant\u2019s game-worn No. 33 jerseys sold for a record-breaking $2.2 million, making it the most expensive high school jersey ever sold at an auction.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis Lower Merion jersey is where Kobe\u2019s story starts, before the rings, the records, and the Mamba Mentality, when he was just a kid in a gym outworking everyone. This jersey symbolizes that greatness has a beginning, and this jersey was there for it,\u201d reads the description from Sotheby\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Lakers legend Kobe Bryant\u2019s high school basketball jersey sold at a record-breaking number. Anthony J. Causi<\/p>\n

This is not the first time the jersey has been moved, as it was sold in 2013 for $51,400.<\/p>\n

The report of the jersey read that the item had 26 bids, with seven different bidders competing for the highly sought-after item.<\/p>\n

Bryant\u2019s jersey sale eclipsed LeBron James\u2019 St. Vincent-St. Mary jersey, which was worn during his infamous 2002 Sports Illustrated \u201cThe Chosen One\u201d cover and sold in 2024 for $1.3 million.<\/p>\n

Sotheby\u2019s reported that Bryant wore the sold jersey during his junior season, in a March 1995 matchup against Hazleton, Pa., Area.<\/p>\n

Kobe Bryant played his entire NBA career with the Lakers. UPI<\/p>\n

The jersey goes into the long list of highly coveted memorabilia from Bryant. The most expensive piece was a 2007-2008 dual-autograph card from Upper Deck that features Bryant and Michael Jordan, which sold for $12.6 million in August 2022.<\/p>\n

Bryant\u2019s Lower Merion jersey is the only basketball uniform he\u2019s worn that didn\u2019t have the words \u201cLakers\u201d or \u201cLos Angeles\u201d across the chest, as he entered the NBA draft immediately after finishing high school.<\/p>\n

The 76ers honor Kobe Bryant by placing his high school jersey on the court at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia on Jan. 28, 2020. Getty Images<\/p>\n

Bryant spent the entirety of his 20-year career with Los Angeles and is regarded as not only one of the greatest Lakers ever, but one of the best basketball players of all time.<\/p>\n

His career finished with him having five NBA titles, two Finals MVPs, one-time league MVP, and an 18-time All-Star selection.<\/p>\n

In 2017, the Lakers retired both Bryant\u2019s No. 8 and No. 24 jersey numbers<\/a>, making him the only player in the NBA to have two numbers retired by a team.<\/p>\n

A year after he tragically died in 2020, he was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everything started at Lower Merion High School for Kobe Bryant. On Friday, Sotheby\u2019s reported that one of Bryant\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[763,30547,183,185,184,186,4794,726],"class_list":["post-318123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lower-merion","tag-kobe-bryant","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion-headlines","tag-lower-merion-news","tag-lower-merion-township","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318123","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=318123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}