Home Sotheby’s will organize an auction of sporting goods on September 15, including the Chicago Bulls jersey worn by the legendary player Michael Jordan in the first game of the NBA championship final in 1998, with an estimated value of between 3 and 5 million dollars.
The auctions include a variety of memorabilia and iconic objects from various athletes, including jerseys, including one of the late basketball player Kobe Bryant, as well as baseball, basketball, soccer, tennis, boxing and hockey shoes and equipment, among others.
The red and black jersey with the number 23 that Jordan wore in that first game will be in the first part of the auction “Undefeated“, Y could become the most valuable piece of player memorabilia coming up for auctionaccording to the statement of Sotheby’s.
Ahead of the 25th anniversary of the ’97-98 #NBA season, one of the most significant items from #Michael Jordan‘s career and final year with the Chicago Bulls is headed to auction this fall: Jordan’s iconic 1998 NBA Finals Game 1 jersey
Bidding opens 6 September pic.twitter.com/y30rQ6UDoa
— Sotheby’s (@Sotheby’s) August 10, 2022
The 1997-1998 season was Jordan’s last with the Chicago Bulls and is known as the “Last Dance.” Jordan played 45 minutes of that game, the most time in any game in that final..
In the second part of “Undefeated” contain pieces of athletes considered among the best in the world such as the boxer Muhammad Ali, the baseball player Babe Ruth, the NBA player Kobe Bryant (whose yellow and purple Los Angeles Lakers jersey is valued between $120,000 and $140,000) or former hockey player Wayne Douglas.
This second part will be headed by a pair of sneakers”Nike Oregon Waffle” worn by Olympic long-distance and middle-distance athlete Steve Prefontaine, who is often credited with driving Nike’s experience as a running shoe company, highlights Sotheby’s.
INVICTUS, a special two-part curated auction of some of the finest sports artifacts fresh to market—from the likes of Michael Jordan to Roger Federer to Wayne Gretzky and Muhammad Ali—is coming to Sotheby’s New York.
Bidding opens September 6: https://t.co/TKxvHwQkEE
— Sotheby’s (@Sotheby’s) August 25, 2022
Other athletes represented in the second part of the auction are the also popular Los Angeles Lakes player LeBron James, former Chicago Bulls player Dennis Rodman, tennis player Rafael Nadal (Nike shoes valued at $20,000-30,000), former soccer player Peyton Manning and legendary former Major League player Jackie Robinson. (D)
Source: Eluniverso

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