Card of Kobe Bryant-Michael Jordan unique to beat the price record for the birthday of mamba

The record for the amount paid for a basketball card is about to be broken by Kobe Bryant on what would have been his 47th birthday … with some help of his “older brother”, Michael Jordan.

The autographed autographed autographed autographs of the Upper Deck 2007-08 collection with Bryant and Jordan is on offer online at Heritage Auctions. The offer closes on Saturday at 20:00 PDT, with extensive offers available at that moment.

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At the beginning of Friday afternoon, the offers for the Single Charter had reached $ 7.015 million, including the 22% buyer’s prize added to the successful offer. This is already shatters the current record price obtained from a $ 5.9 million baskett-i card paid for the autographed card of the Panini National Treasures 2009-10 Stephen Curry Logoman in a private property of 2021.

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With more than one day more for offers, it is still difficult to say what the new record could end.

“Most likely, it will end somewhere in the 8 million dollar range,” said the director of the Sports Collectibles heritage Chris Ivy last Friday, even if he added that “he wouldn’t shocked” if he went for $ 10 million or more.

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Most of anyone who paid for any sports card is $ 12.6 million for a 1952 Mickey Mantle Topps card in an auction of the 2022 assets. The Curry Card is currently located at n. 4 of all sports cards.

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The series of Dual Logoman Autographs cards presents the images and signatures of two iconic players, as well as the NBA logo patch by a shirt consumed of each player’s game. Jordan appeared on eight cards of this type and Bryant was out of 11, but this is the only one who paired them two.

“It is the only one who has Kobe and Jordan, and has both their logos of Logoman, and is signed by both,” Ivy said, “and so some of those combined factors together to make this the best card for modern cards collectors. And we are seeing it in the price that is generating right now.”

The cards with Jordan and Bryant individually did not bring almost the same money, with the best Jordan seller for $ 2.93 million in 2024 and Bryant will go for $ 2.3 million at the beginning of this month.

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Ivy said it is a coincidence that the auction is ending up for Bryant’s birthday.

The beloved icon of Los Angeles and her daughter Gianna were among the nine people who died in a helicopter accident of January 26, 2020 in Calabasas. Jordan was one of the speakers of the father’s public memorial and daughter held on February 24, 2020 at the Staples Center.

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“Maybe he surprised the people that Kobe and I was very intimate friends,” said Jordan. “But we were very intimate friends. Kobe was my dear friend, it was like a little brother.”

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He added: “What Kobe Bryant was for me was the inspiration that someone really cared about the way I played the game or the way he wanted to play.

“He wanted to be the best basketball player who could be. And while I knew him, I wanted to be the best older brother I could be. To make that you have to endure the aggravation, the calls late at night or the stupid questions. I was very proud when I was able to know Kobe Bryant who was just trying to be a better person, a better player for basketball.”

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This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.