For these within the sports activities card buy-sell-trade enterprise, a brand new chart-topping sale is making the rounds. In line with The Athletic, a professionally-graded 2007 dual-autograph Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant card bought for $12.9 million, a record-breaking quantity within the interest.
The 1-of-1 emblem man card out of Higher Deck Beautiful options two NBA logos, faces of Bryant and Jordan and on-card autographs from two of the best gamers within the historical past of the game.
The public sale ended for the cardboard, graded a PSA 6, ended Sunday morning by Heritage Auctions’ particular “Summer season Platinum Evening Sports activities Public sale” and the customer’s id has not been revealed.
“The demand for this card is astronomical, which is smart, as a result of it has every little thing, together with pictures, jersey patches and signatures from two of the best gamers who ever stepped on the courtroom,” Chris Ivy, Heritage’s director of sports activities auctions, stated in a press release. “The Twin Logoman card provided on this public sale is the one instance created that features solely Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant – making it essentially the most sought-after instance of the unbelievable Higher Deck Logoman collection, and due to Kobe Bryant’s tragic dying in 2020, it all the time would be the just one.”
The pre-auction estimate for the cardboard was $6 million, however that was eclipsed early throughout the itemizing with a number of bids exceeding that quantity. Per CNN, the earlier sports activities card excessive was $12.6 million in 2022 for a mint situation 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle baseball card.
Earlier than the Mantle rookie, a collector doled out $6.6 million for a Honus Wagner card in 2021. The Jordan-Bryant sale is greater than double the earlier most costly basketball card — Steph Curry’s Logoman from his rookie season in 2009-10, which bought for $5.9 million beforehand.
In honor of “Mamba Day” on Sunday, Aug. 24, Nike restocked a number of of Bryant’s featured Protro version sneakers from earlier releases, together with the Kobe VI Los Angeles Dodgers and the Kobe VIII What The Kobe colorways.
