A jersey worn by basketball legend Michael Jordan has been auctioned in New York for a record sum of around ten million dollars. So much has never been paid for such a garment.
Michael Jordan in his last NBA Finals with teammate Scottie Pippen.
tsf./(agencies) Basketball star Michael Jordan wore the number 23 shirt during his “last dance” in the 1998 finals of the North American professional league NBA. He won 4-2 with his Chicago Bulls against the Utah Jazz. It was the sixth and last championship for the legendary number 23.
Now the sports jersey of the now 59-year-old Jordan has set an auction record. As the American auction house Sotheby’s announced, it was auctioned in New York for a record sum of 10.1 million dollars.
There were around twenty bids for the garment. It is not known who finally made the highest bid of $ 10.1 million. Sotheby’s had previously only estimated the jersey’s value at around $5 million. Last year, the American’s sports shoes were auctioned for $ 1.5 million.
The number 23 shirt changed hands for $10 million.
The number 23 shirt fetched the highest price ever paid for an item of clothing worn in a game. The Jordan shirt surpassed the amount paid last May for a shirt worn by Argentinian football legend Diego Maradona in the 1986 World Cup quarter-finals against England. In this game, Maradona had scored an irregular goal with the so-called “Hand of God”. His jersey changed hands a few months ago for 8.4 million euros.