{"id":318387,"date":"2026-10-31T16:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T16:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/318387\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T16:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T16:02:07","slug":"kobe-bryant-high-school-jersey-sells-for-record-breaking-2-2-million-at-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/318387\/","title":{"rendered":"Kobe Bryant High School Jersey Sells for Record-Breaking $2.2 Million at Auction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kobe Bryant’s<\/a> game-worn high school basketball jersey has sold for a record-breaking $2.2 million at auction.<\/p>\n

According to Hypebeast<\/a>, Sotheby’s held an auction for the jersey, accumulating 26 bids from seven different bidders after first selling at an auction to a private collector for $51,400 in 2013. <\/p>\n

The uniform was worn by Bryant during his time at Philadelphia\u2019s Lower Merion High School, where he was averaging 31 points per game by his junior year. The jersey itself, as Sotheby’s detailed, was photo-matched by Sports Investors Authentication (SIA) and MeiGray to a photo showing Bryant spinning a basketball on his finger in 1995.<\/p>\n

The jersey was also accompanied by a letter of authenticity from the initial Goldin Auctions sale of the jersey in 2013, where it was put up for sale by his mother, Pamela Bryant. <\/p>\n

The sale of the high school basketball jersey breaks the record previously held by a St. Vincent-St. Mary jersey from LeBron James<\/a>, which sold for $1.3 million in 2024. That jersey was famously featured on LeBron James’ cover story for Sports Illustrated in 2002.<\/p>\n

“This Lower Merion jersey is where Kobe’s story starts, before the rings, the records, and the Mamba Mentality, when he was just a kid in a gym outworking everyone,” said Brahm Wachter, Sotheby\u2019s Head of Modern Collectables. “This jersey symbolizes that greatness has a beginning, and this jersey was there for it.”<\/p>\n

The sale of the high-school jersey comes not long after Bryant\u2019s NBA Finals game-worn No. 8 Lakers Jersey was put up for auction<\/a> by The Realest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kobe Bryant’s game-worn high school basketball jersey has sold for a record-breaking $2.2 million at auction. According to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[183,185,184,186],"class_list":["post-318387","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\/318387","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=318387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}