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The world's most expensive basketball jersey has appeared. The jersey worn by Basketball Emperor Michael Jordan during his "Last Dance" season, when he secured his final championship with the Chicago Bulls, sold for a staggering $14 million (approximately 18.9 billion won), shattering the previous record for the highest price ever paid for a basketball-related collectible.
Sports media outlets such as 'ESPN' highlighted on the 13th (Korean time) that "Jordan's Last Dance season jersey sold for $14 million, setting the highest auction price in the history of basketball memorabilia."
The jersey sold this time is the Chicago Bulls uniform that Jordan personally wore during Game 2 of the 1998 National Basketball Association (NBA) Finals, and it even bears Jordan's autograph.
At the time, Jordan dominated the second game against the Utah Jazz by scoring a series-high 37 points, the most by any player in that matchup. Chicago clinched the series with a 4-2 record to claim the championship, and Jordan lavishly capped off his final season with the Bulls by winning his sixth and last NBA Finals title. Jordan had won Finals MVP in all six of his championship runs.
Even across the history of sports memorabilia in all disciplines, only one item has ever sold for more than this Jordan jersey: the uniform worn by baseball legend Babe Ruth when he hit his so-called "called shot" home run during the 1932 World Series. It was sold last year in 2024 for $24.1 million (approximately 32.5 billion won).
The previous record for the most expensive basketball collectible was a 2007-2008 card featuring Jordan and Kobe Bryant, which sold for $12.9 million (approximately 17.4 billion won) last year. Additionally, the previous highest price for an item personally worn by Jordan was the Game 3 Finals jersey from 1998, which went to auction just two weeks ago for $12.3 million (approximately 16.6 billion won). With the sale of this autographed Game 2 jersey, the record for the most expensive item personally worn by Jordan himself was rewritten again within just two weeks.
This transaction was conducted as a private deal through a collectibles auction house. The buyer has been identified as Ron Perelman, a real estate investor from Miami, USA.
The head of the auction house stated in an official statement, "Michael Jordan's status in the sports memorabilia market has long been firmly established, but he has now been elevated to the realm of top-tier elite assets, a category previously applied only to iconic works of art."
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