Michael Jordan jersey from ‘Last Dance’ season sells for file £10.6m

A Michael Jordan jersey from his ‘Last Dance’ season has bought for $14m (£10.6m), a file for a bit of basketball memorabilia.

Jordan wore the Chicago Bulls jersey throughout recreation two of the 1998 NBA Finals and has autographed it too.

He scored a game-high 37 factors that night earlier than ending his final season with the Bulls with a 4-2 collection win for his sixth and closing NBA Championship. He was named the Finals’ Most Valuable Player in all six.

The solely merchandise of sports activities memorabilia that has value extra is the jersey worn by baseball legend Babe Ruth when he “known as the shot” throughout the 1932 World Series, which was bought for $24.1m (£18.2m) in 2024.

The earlier excessive for a basketball merchandise was a card that includes Jordan and Kobe Bryant from 2007-08 which sold for $12.9m (£9.8m) last year.

The earlier file for a bit of game-worn Jordan memorabilia was set simply two weeks in the past when his jersey from recreation three of the 1998 Finals, which isn’t autographed, sold via auction for $12.3m (£9.3m).

The newest buy was made by Miami actual property investor Ron Firman in a personal sale by Hunt Auctions.

David Hunt, president of Hunt Auctions, mentioned in an announcement: “While Michael Jordan’s significance inside the sports activities memorabilia market has lengthy been established, it has now escalated to an elite asset class extra usually reserved for iconic artistic endeavors.”