
Six-time NBA champion Michael Jordan's 1998 jersey sold at auction for $12.26 million, setting a world record for an NBA jersey.
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Michael Jordan played for the Chicago Bulls and won six NBA titles.
MOSCOW, October 1 - RIA Novosti. The game jersey of six-time National Basketball Association (NBA) champion Michael Jordan from his final season with the Chicago Bulls was sold at auction for $12.26 million, according to the Joopiter auction house page on the X social network.
Wearing a white jersey with number 23, Jordan played in Game 3 of the 1998 NBA Finals against the Utah Jazz (96:54), in which he scored 24 points. The Bulls won the series 4-2 and captured their sixth championship in eight years.
The sale set a world auction record for the value of an NBA jersey. The previous record was $10.091 million. Then, Jordan's game jersey from the first game of the 1998 NBA Finals was sold for this amount at Sotheby's auction.
The auction also set a record price for the Ferrari 550 Maranello. A 1997 car formerly owned by Jordan sold for $2.7 million, more than four times the previous auction record for the model.

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