{"id":28890,"date":"2025-08-27T23:34:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T03:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/jordan-and-kobe-trading-card-achieves-historic-record-of-12-9m\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T23:34:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T03:34:20","slug":"jordan-and-kobe-trading-card-achieves-historic-record-of-12-9m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nba\/jordan-and-kobe-trading-card-achieves-historic-record-of-12-9m\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan and Kobe: Trading Card Achieves Historic Record of $12.9M"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Jordan and Bryant Sports Card Sets New Price Record<\/h2>\n\nA collectible sports 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\nThis historic card, belonging to the Upper Deck Exquisite collection from the 2007-08 season, features the signatures of Jordan and Bryant, and is a unique piece (1 of 1). This achievement surpasses the previous record of $12.6 million set by a 1952 Mickey Mantle card.\n\nThe sale of the Jordan\/Bryant card was managed by Heritage Auctions. The acquisition was made by a group of investors, including Canadian investor Kevin O&#8217;Leary, collector Matt Allen (known as Shyne150 on social media), and entrepreneur Paul Warshaw.\n\nThe Jordan\/Bryant card becomes the second most valuable sports collectible item in history, surpassed only by the Babe Ruth jersey worn in the 1932 World Series, which sold for $24.12 million.\n\nChris Ivy, director of sports auctions at Heritage, recalled the time when Upper Deck launched Exquisite, with five-card packs at $500. This launch included a LeBron James rookie card that reached $5.2 million, holding the previous record for a basketball card until this sale.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>&#8220;He reached a demographic that wasn&#8217;t interested in gimmicks: they just wanted the best of the best&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n<cite>Chris Ivy<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe Jordan\/Bryant card is a highly valuable collector&#8217;s item, especially in the realm of modern basketball, as it is the only one that combines the signatures of Jordan and Bryant in a Logoman design. This rarity explains its high price, despite receiving a grade of 6 from Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA).\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 deportiva de Michael Jordan y Kobe Bryant\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nThe 2007-08 Upper Deck Exquisite collection card with the signatures of Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant sold for $12.932 million, surpassing a 1952 Mickey Mantle card as the most expensive sports card sold at auction.\n\nIvy also highlighted that the authenticity of Bryant and Jordan&#8217;s card is &#8220;unshakeable&#8221;, especially in the context of Brett Lemieux&#8217;s fraudulent memorabilia scandal. Lemieux is accused of flooding the market with fraudulent Kobe Bryant items after his death in 2020.\n\nThis historic sale coincides with what would have been Kobe Bryant&#8217;s 47th birthday.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jordan and Bryant Sports Card Sets New Price Record A collectible sports 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. This historic card, belonging to the Upper Deck Exquisite collection from the 2007-08 season, features the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[2021,6245,1636,7738],"class_list":{"0":"post-28890","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\/28890","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=28890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}