{"id":1642351,"date":"2022-09-16T05:50:38","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T09:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1642351"},"modified":"2022-09-16T05:50:54","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T09:50:54","slug":"nba-jordans-last-dance-jersey-sells-for-record-10-1-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nba-jordans-last-dance-jersey-sells-for-record-10-1-million\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA-Jordan\u2019s \u2018Last Dance\u2019 jersey sells for record $10.1 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnba-jordans-last-dance-jersey-sells-for-record-10-1-million%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1642351&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>(Reuters) \u2013     Michael Jordan\u2019s jersey from the opening game of the 1998 NBA Finals sold for over $10 million at an auction on Thursday, making it the most expensive piece of game-worn sports memorabilia in history.<\/p>\n<p>The previous record was established earlier this year at Sotheby\u2019s, with Argentine soccer great Diego Maradona\u2019s \u201cHand of God\u201d jersey fetching a staggering $9.3 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the weeks since we announced the auction, there\u2019s been palpable excitement from not only sports fans, but collectors alike who are eager to own a rarefied piece of history,\u201d said Brahm Wachter, Sotheby\u2019s Head of Streetwear and Modern Collectables.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYet again, today\u2019s record-breaking result\u2026 solidifies Michael Jordan as the undisputed G.O.A.T, proving his name and incomparable legacy is just as relevant as it was nearly 25 years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jordan\u2019s jersey was expected to fetch $3 to $5 million at Sotheby\u2019s \u201cINVICTUS\u201d auction and eclipsed the $3.7 million spent in May on Kobe Bryant\u2019s Los Angeles Lakers jersey worn in his rookie year \u2014 the previous record for a basketball jersey at auction.<\/p>\n<p>It also broke the record for any item of Jordan sports memorabilia after his autographed relic card from 1997-1998 sold for $2.7 million.<\/p>\n<p>The jersey from the famed \u201cLast Dance\u201d season \u2014 named after the 2020 ESPN\/Netflix documentary chronicling Jordan and Chicago Bulls in their quest to win their sixth NBA championship in eight years \u2014 attracted a total of 20 bids.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Shrivathsa Sridhar in Bengaluru; Editing by Christian Radnedge)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/nba-jordans-last-dance-jersey\/michael-jordans-1998-nba-finals-jersey-to-go-up-for\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8E13W-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8E13W-VIEWIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/nba-jordans-last-dance-jersey\/michael-jordans-1998-nba-finals-jersey-to-go-up-for-2\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8E13X-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8E13X-VIEWIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) \u2013 Michael Jordan\u2019s jersey from the opening game of the 1998 NBA Finals sold for over $10 million at an auction on Thursday, making it the most expensive piece<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1642351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1642351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1642351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1642351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1642351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}