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A Michael Jordan jersey from his ‘Last Dance’ season has sold for $12.3m (\u00a39.3m), a record for a piece of game-worn Jordan memorabilia.<\/b><\/p>\n
He wore the jersey in game three of the 1998 NBA Finals, his last season with the Chicago Bulls.<\/p>\n
Jordan helped the Bulls win the series 4-2 for his sixth and final NBA Championship. He was named the Finals’ Most Valuable Player in all six.<\/p>\n
The previous record for a piece of Jordan memorabilia was $10.1m (\u00a37.6m) for his jersey from game one<\/a> of the 1998 Finals.<\/p>\n The game three jersey was put up for sale by entrepreneur Ryan Gough and sold at Joopiter, Pharrell Williams’ digital auction house, which gave it an estimated price of $10-15m (\u00a37.5-\u00a311.3m).<\/p>\n Jordan’s 1997 Ferrari 550 Maranello was sold for $2.7m (\u00a32m), four times the auction record for that model.<\/p>\n “Few objects in the history of sport embody greatness as completely as Michael Jordan’s game three jersey from the 1998 NBA Finals,” Joopiter said in the auction posting.<\/p>\n “Worn during the Last Dance… it marks the culmination of an era that transformed basketball into a global cultural phenomenon.<\/p>\n “Today it stands among the most important game-worn sports artifacts ever to come to market.”<\/p>\n The record price for a piece of game-worn sports memorabilia is the jersey worn by baseball legend Babe Ruth when he “called the shot” during the 1932 World Series, which was sold for $24.1m (\u00a318.2m)<\/a> in 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n