Jordan game-worn NBA Finals jersey sells for record price of $14 million — SkimNews
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- Michael Jordan's game-worn, autographed road jersey from Game 2 of the 1998 NBA Finals sold privately for $14 million, announced by Hunt Auctions on Monday as a record for basketball memorabilia.
- Hunt Auctions, a Pennsylvania-based auction house, brokered the private treaty sale to Miami real estate investor Ron Firman.
- The red jersey was worn June 5, 1998 when the Chicago Bulls beat the Utah Jazz in Game 2 to even the series 1-1; the Bulls won the championship in six games — Jordan's sixth and final title.
- The $14 million price is the second-largest known for a game-worn jersey, behind Babe Ruth's 'called shot' jersey from the 1932 World Series that sold for $24.12 million in 2024.
- This is the third jersey from that 1998 Finals to clear $10 million — the Game 1 jersey sold for $10.1M in 2022 and the Game 3 jersey fetched $12.3M last month.
- David Hunt, president of Hunt Auctions, called Jordan memorabilia 'an elite asset class more typically reserved for iconic works of art.'
- The jersey was originally purchased from the Bulls by a private collector in 2003 and 'has remained within a succinct chain of custody,' according to Hunt.
Why it matters: Three Jordan jerseys from the same 1998 Finals series have now each cleared $10 million, and Hunt Auctions' president called the memorabilia 'an elite asset class more typically reserved for iconic works of art' — a classification that puts a single game-worn jersey in the same financial conversation as top-tier fine art.
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