Unique Kobe Bryant-Michael Jordan card set to break sales price record
The record of the amount paid for a basketball card is about to be broken by Kobe Bryant on what would have been his 47th birthday … With the help of his “big brother”, Michael Jordan.
The Map of Dual Logoman autographs from the 2007-08 Upper Deck Upper Deck collection featuring Bryant and Jordan is to be offered online during Heritage auctions. The auctions end on Saturday at 8 p.m. the PDT, with extended auctions available at that time.
Since early Friday afternoon, the single card auctions have reached $ 7.015 million, including the 22% bonus of the buyer added to the successful offer. This already breaks the current record price collected by a basketball card-the $ 5.9 million paid for the Panini Treasures de Panini 2009-2010 autograph card Stephen Curry Logoman Card in a sale of private succession in 2021.
With more than a day that remains for offers, it is always difficult to say what the new record could end up being.
“Most likely, it will end somewhere in the range of $ 8 million,” said heritage director of sports collectibles Chris Ivy in Times on Friday morning, although he added that he would not be shocked “if it went for 10 million dollars or more.
The largest number of people who paid for any sports card is $ 12.6 million for a 1952 Mickey Mantle Topps card in a Heritage auction in 2022. The Curry card is currently at n ° 4 among all sports cards.
The Dual Logoman Autographs de Card series presents the images and signatures of two emblematic players, as well as NBA logo fixes from a jersey worn by the game of each player. Jordan appeared on eight of these cards and Bryant was on 11, but he is the only one to have paired the two.
“He is the only one to have Kobe and Jordan, and he has both their Logoman logos, and he is signed by the two,” said Ivy, “and therefore in a way all these factors combined together to make it the best card for modern card collectors. And we see this in the price he generates at the moment.”
Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls looks at the basket while he was kept by the Kobe Bryant of Lakers on February 1, 1998 at the Forum.
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The cards featuring Jordan and Bryant individually did not report almost as much money, with the best seller of Jordan for $ 2.93 million in 2024 and Bryant for $ 2.3 million earlier this month.
Ivy said that it was a coincidence that the auction ends Bryant’s birthday.
The beloved icon and daughter of Los Angeles Gianna were one of the nine people who died in a helicopter accident on January 26, 2020 in Calabasas. Jordan was one of the speakers of the public memorial of the father and the daughter held on February 24, 2020 at the Staples Center.
“Maybe it surprised the people Kobe and I were very close friends,” said Jordan. “But we were very close friends. Kobe was my dear friend, he was like a little brother. ”
He added: “What Kobe Bryant was for me was the inspiration that someone really cared about how I played the game or the way he wanted to play the game.
“He wanted to be the best basketball player he could be. And as I knew, I wanted to be the best big brother I could be.
