{"id":28602,"date":"2025-08-27T05:05:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T09:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/jordan-and-kobe-sports-card-reaches-12-9m-new-historical-record\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T05:05:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T09:05:58","slug":"jordan-and-kobe-sports-card-reaches-12-9m-new-historical-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nba\/jordan-and-kobe-sports-card-reaches-12-9m-new-historical-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan and Kobe: Sports card reaches $12.9M, new historical record"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant Sports Card Sets New Sales Record<\/h2>\n\nA sports trading card signed by Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant reached an astonishing $12.932 million at auction, setting a new record as the most expensive sports card ever sold.\n\nThe card in question, belonging to the Upper Deck Exquisite collection from the 2007-08 season, is a Dual Logoman Autographs, numbered as 1 of 1. This collector&#8217;s item surpassed the previous record set by a 1952 Mickey Mantle card, which sold for $12.6 million in August 2022.\n\nThe sale of the Jordan\/Bryant card was managed by Heritage Auctions. The acquisition was made by a group composed of Canadian investor Kevin O&#8217;Leary, collector Matt Allen (known as Shyne150 on social media), and businessman Paul Warshaw.\n\nThis item is positioned as the second most expensive sports collectible in history, surpassed only by Babe Ruth&#8217;s 1932 World Series jersey, known as the &#8220;called shot,&#8221; which reached $24.12 million.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>They were adding patches and signatures, Logomen, this was one of the first times that the jersey logos were used in this way.<\/p><cite>Chris Ivy, director of sports auctions at Heritage<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a4.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0824%2Fr1535955_850x478_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Tarjeta de Michael Jordan y Kobe Bryant\" title=\"\"><figcaption>La tarjeta Dual Logoman Autographs de Michael Jordan y Kobe Bryant, de la colecci\u00f3n Upper Deck Exquisite 2007-08, alcanz\u00f3 los $12.932 millones, superando a la tarjeta de Mickey Mantle de 1952 como la tarjeta deportiva m\u00e1s cara vendida en subasta. Cortes\u00eda de Heritage Auctions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nThe rarity of this card, despite receiving a grade of 6 from Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA), justifies its high price. The authenticity of Bryant and Jordan&#8217;s signatures is guaranteed, especially in the context of the recent memorabilia forgery scandal involving Brett Lemieux.\n\nThis achievement comes in a significant month for Bryant cards. Collector Matt Allen revealed a private investment of $4 million in Panini Flawless Logoman cards signed by Bryant, including a 2017-18 card for $1.7 million and another from 2015-16 for $2.3 million, which previously held the record for a Bryant card.\n\nCoincidentally, the sale took place on the day Kobe Bryant would have turned 47 years old.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant Sports Card Sets New Sales Record A sports trading card signed by Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant reached an astonishing $12.932 million at auction, setting a new record as the most expensive sports card ever sold. The card in question, belonging to the Upper Deck Exquisite collection from the 2007-08 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[2021,6245,1636,7738],"class_list":{"0":"post-28602","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-auction","9":"tag-kobe-bryant","10":"tag-michael-jordan","11":"tag-sports-card"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}